Demographic changes together with the prevalence of chronic illnesses forecast a sharp increase in the need of long-term care, which is generally undertaken by unpaid family caregivers (Nowossadeck, 2013).Parallelly, single-person households are more common (Snell, 2017), women are participating more in the labour market (Hirst, 2001;Jensen, 2012;Ortiz-Ospina & Sandra, 2017), and the fertility rate is falling (Roser, 2014), which forecast a steady decline in the supply of family caregivers (Broese van Groenou & De Boer, 2016). In their absence, the healthcare system has to rethink its long-term care policy and transition to the provision of professional home care.
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