Care Poverty and Unmet Needs: Inequalities in Theory and Practice

by Teppo Kröger (Editor), Nicola Brimblecombe (Editor), Ricardo Rodrigues (Editor), Kirstein Rummery (Editor)

Overview

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

As populations age around the world, there is an urgent need to address the inadequate and unequal provision of care and support to older and disabled people.

This book represents the first collective effort to use the concept of care poverty to analyse unmet needs and inequalities in care at an international level and from a social policy perspective. It presents pioneering empirical studies and novel theoretical and methodological approaches to unmet needs and care poverty.

This volume points the way forward for international care research and, in particular, for the growing field of research on inadequate care and support.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447370116
Publisher:	Policy Press
Publication date:	05/23/2025
Series:	Transforming Care
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	226
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Teppo Kröger is Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Jyväskylä and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare).

Nicola Brimblecombe is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ricardo Rodrigues is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Work at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG) at the University of Lisbon and Board Member of the Research Centre in Economic and Organisational Sociology (SOCIUS).

Kirstein Rummery is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Stirling.

Kirstein Rummery is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Stirling, the co-director of the Centre on Gender and Feminist Studies and a senior fellow of the Centre on Constitutional Change.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction

1. Introduction: Unmet care needs and care poverty in international perspective - Teppo Kröger, Nicola Brimblecombe, Ricardo Rodrigues and Kirstein Rummery

Part 2: Theory and Methods

2. Care poverty and conflicts in social citizenship: the right to care? - Kirstein Rummery

3. Care poverty: centring older and disabled people in the care economy - Christine Kelly

4. From rationing to rights: measuring unmet care needs to transform aged care systems - Trish Hill, Natasha Cortis, Myra Hamilton and Carmelle Peisah

5. Methods to match a novel concept: approaches to measuring care poverty - Márton Medgyesi, Ricardo Rodrigues and Eszter Zólyomi

Part 3: Practice

6. Unmet care needs over time: social networks and persistent unmet needs - Athina Vlachantoni, Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham and Min Qin

7. Care poverty and sources of care: formal services, informal care or a combination - Jiby Mathew Puthenparambil, Lina Van Aerschot and Teppo Kröger

8. Unmet need and care poverty: new patterns of distribution in Danish home care for older people - Tine Rostgaard

9. Pathways to and through caring: family care, socioeconomic differences and care poverty - Tjaša Potočnik, Maša Filipovič Hrast, Miriam Hurtado Monarres and Valentina Hlebec

10. Needs and unmet needs of family carers: an intersectional approach to long-term care in Germany - Simone Leiber and Daniela Brüker

11. People with dementia and their informal carers: at particular risk of care poverty - Mari Aaltonen, Päivi Eskola and Lina Van Aerschot

12. Reproducing inequalities: unmet care needs and managerial care - Petra Ulmanen

Part 4: Conclusions

13. Towards an understanding of care poverty - Kirstein Rummery, Teppo Kröger, Nicola Brimblecombe and Ricardo Rodrigues

Editorial Reviews

This excellent book deepens our understanding of care poverty and care inequalities, bringing together theoretical, empirical and methodological insights from international scholars.” Catherine Needham, University of Birmingham

“This volume shows how care poverty is a powerful conceptual tool for addressing the critical problems of care experienced across the globe.” Michael Fine, Macquarie University

“This insightful, must-read book introduces 'care poverty' to advance theory and compare policies and practices for addressing care gaps.” Tamara Daly, York University

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