Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/249144 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 954
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Elderly's use of long-term care (LTC) services are likely to be influenced by family members, but there is scarce research on the role played by partners and/or adult children, especially taking geographic proximity into account. We thus examine how partners and adult children influence elderly's LTC use, taking regional differences into account. We employ logistic discrete-time hazard regression models on linked registry data for complete cohorts of elderly individuals (65+ years), their partners, their adult children, residing in Norway in the period 2010-2016 (N=820 000). We also include municipal characteristics. One's own, partner's and child(ren)'s characteristics are all associated with elderly individuals' LTC use. Partners' resources matter the most, but those of adult children are relevant when partners are less resourceful or absent. Childless elderly use more LTC services than elderly with children, and elderly with resourceful children living nearby use the least LTC services. The trends are similar across municipalities, but the magnitudes vary slightly depending on their geographic location and sociodemographic and economic resources. Future demographic and economic changes warrant a better understanding of the role played by family members for elderly's use of LTC services.
Subjects: 
Care use
Family
Formal care
Geographic
Informal care
Long-term care (LTC)
JEL: 
I10
I12
I18
J10
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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