Description:
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.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: "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