Elderly Demand for Family-based Care and Support: Evidence from a Social Intervention Strategy

Aboagye, Emmanuel and Agyemang, Otuo Serebour and Tjerbo, Trond (2013) Elderly Demand for Family-based Care and Support: Evidence from a Social Intervention Strategy. Global Journal of Health Science, 6 (2). ISSN 1916-9736

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Abstract

This paper examines the influence of the national health insurance scheme on elderly demand for family-based care and support. It contributes to the growing concern on the rapid increase in the elderly population globally using micro-level social theory to examine the influence the health insurance has on elderly demand for family support. A qualitative case study approach is applied to construct a comprehensive and thick description of how the national health insurance scheme influences the elderly in their demand for family support.Through focused interviews and direct observation of six selected cases, in-depth information on primary carers, living arrangement and the interaction between the health insurance as structure and elders as agents are analyzed. The study highlights that the interaction between the elderly and the national health insurance scheme has produced a new stratum of relationship between the elderly and their primary carers. Consequently, this has created equilibrium between the elderly demand for support and support made available by their primary carers. As the demand of the elderly for support is declining, supply of support by family members for the elderly is also on the decline.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: STM Repository > Medical Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 06 May 2023 06:54
Last Modified: 04 Jun 2024 10:53
URI: http://classical.goforpromo.com/id/eprint/3160

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