Housing for care: A response to the post-transitional old-age gap?

Mandič, Srna (avtor)

This article examines the trade-off between owned housing and old-age care in Slovenia where the population has been found outstandingly willing to enter residential care and also consume housing wealth for this purpose. To explain this peculiarity, a case study as a holistic in-depth analysis was conducted, combining multiple sources of quantitative survey data and qualitative interview-based insights and accounting for the institutional context and individual decisions. What was found was a modernised version of the traditional 'inheritance for care' exchange, whereby the inheritor partly finances the parent's residential care. This family-mediated trade-off between old-age care and housing wealth was found to serve as an informal equity-release scheme which in Slovenia helps bridge the post-transitional old-age gap, the syndrome of low pensions, underdeveloped care services and owner-occupied housing un-adapted to seniors. Moreover, it is hypothesised that this structural gap is common to other post-transitional countries.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: Home ownership, Old age, Social security, Transition
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FDV - Fakulteta za družbene vede
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Recenzirani rokopis
• Št. strani: 155-167
• Številčenje: volume 26, issue 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-83154
• UDK: 316.334.54-053.88
• DOI: 10.1177/0958928716637140
• COBISS.SI-ID: 33991517
• Datum objave v RUL: 01.06.2016

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Journal of European social policy
• Založnik: Sage
• ISSN: 1461-7269
• COBISS.SI-ID: 518284313

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: Lastništvo hiš, Ostarelost, Socialna varnost, Tranzicija