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

Mandič, Srna (author)

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.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Home ownership, Old age, Social security, Transition
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Number of pages: 155-167
• Numbering: volume 26, issue 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-83154
• UDC: 316.334.54-053.88
• DOI: 10.1177/0958928716637140
• COBISS.SI-ID: 33991517
• Publication date in RUL: 01.06.2016

Record is a part of a journal

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

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Lastništvo hiš, Ostarelost, Socialna varnost, Tranzicija