The Long-Term Care System for the Elderly in Belgium

Willemé, Peter

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“…The organisation of healthcare systems differs between countries. In Belgium, formal care as well as informal care is both important (Willemé ). Informal care is funded more than in the neighbouring countries (Anthierens et al .…”

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Understanding the experience of adult daughters caring for an ageing parent, a qualitative study

Hartmann

Anthierens

Assche

et al. 2016

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…). When getting older, a large majority of people prefer to be cared for at home by family or friends instead of moving into a nursing home (Willemé , Pickard ). Informal care for the older people at home is mainly provided by non‐cohabiting adult children (Van Houtven & Norton ).…”

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Understanding the experience of adult daughters caring for an ageing parent, a qualitative study

Hartmann

Anthierens

Assche

et al. 2016

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…Belgium occupies an intermediate position with regard to universal entitlements (Geerts 2009;Willemé 2010). On the one hand, nursing and personal care, both in residential care facilities and at home, are largely part of the public healthcare system, which combines universal coverage with relatively low rates of out-of-pocket payment.…”

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Transitions in formal and informal care utilisation amongst older Europeans: the impact of national contexts

Geerts

Bosch

2011

Eur J Ageing

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The objective of this study was to explore how long-term care systems, and in particular the incorporation of needs-based entitlements to care services or benefits, influence formal and informal care utilisation dynamics. We used the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) wave 1 and 2 data, restricting the sample to persons 65? from 9 European countries (N = 6,293). The effects of changes in health and household composition on formal and informal care transitions were estimated using logistic regression, allowing these effects to vary across countries. The results indicated that, in all countries, formal and informal care were more often complements than substitutes. The likelihood of becoming a formal or informal care user varied significantly between countries. In the Scandinavian countries and in several continental European countries with needs-based entitlements, the transition to formal care was strongly related to informal support being or becoming unavailable. We found little evidence of country differences in the effect of health variables on the transition to formal care. The analysis suggested that, whilst rates of formal care utilisation continue to differ considerably between European countries, formal care allocation practices are not very dissimilar across Northern and continental European welfare states, as we found evidence for all countries of targeting of older persons living alone and of the most care-dependent older people.

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“…Belgium on the other hand has a wide spread LTC system which offers various services and is financed by taxes as well as social and health contribution. The system offers a universal coverage providing a wide range of home-based services (Willemé, 2010). This may have favoured the likelihood of getting home-based LTC services for different groups of the population.…”

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Western European Countries

2002

International Handbook of Urban Systems

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The need for long-term care (LTC) is projected to increase in all European countries due to the ageing of the population. The number of people aged 65 and older will double in EU-15 countries by 2050 under a pure ageing scenario and will increase by more than 30 per cent under the constant disability scenario.The aim of this paper is to see how different individual characteristics and the LTC systems around Western Europe influence the utilisation of formal LTC (in terms of frequency of services received). The data used from this study come from the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) [2004][2005]. We test here the individuals and systems characteristics determining the influence of use professional home-based LTC service (nursing care, domestic home assistance and meals-on-wheals).The frequencies are modelled using a negative binomial regression model.Our findings indicate that utilisation of professional home-based LTC increases significantly with factors like age, education, income and ADL (Activities of Daily Living) score. We found that the utilisation of LTC services is closely linked to the policy priorities, the financing and the organisations of the LTC system. In countries like the Netherlands, where a greater policy emphasis is put on home-based care, the utilisation of home-based LTC is higher compared with most of the other countries in the study.

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The Long-Term Care System for the Elderly in Belgium

Cited by 23 publications

References 7 publications

Understanding the experience of adult daughters caring for an ageing parent, a qualitative study

Understanding the experience of adult daughters caring for an ageing parent, a qualitative study

Transitions in formal and informal care utilisation amongst older Europeans: the impact of national contexts

Western European Countries

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