Prevalence of care dependence among older persons in 26 Latin American and the Caribbean countries

Aranco, Natalia; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Stampini, Marco

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“…Other countries in the region, such as Uruguay, are also facing similar cost pressures to implement LTCS (Matus-Lopez & Cid, 2016). Currently, studies that estimate the demand of care of dependents and make diagnostics of existing programs are being conducted in several countries in the region, including Argentina, Brazil, and Chile (Aranco et al, 2022;Dabove, 2022;Lloyd-Sherlock et al, 2022;Matus-Lopez & Cid, 2015;Villalobos, 2017). In these countries, the challenge of balancing the imperative to develop long-term care systems with the constraints of public financing for social and health services has led to a growing interest in cash transfers as a potential substitute for in-kind services.…”

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Impact Evaluation of Cash-For-Care in Latin America’s New Long-Term Care Policies: A Randomized Controlled Trial Pilot Study in Costa Rica

Chaverri-Carvajal

Matus-López

2023

J Appl Gerontol

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Latin America is aging rapidly. Thus, governments in the region are reformulating their social protection policies. In 2022, Costa Rica passed a national long-term care law. A discussion developed on how to provide such care, whether through public or private in-kind benefits or cash-for-care (CfC) to beneficiaries. CfC has been used in developed countries with various outcomes. However, there are still no evaluations of its effects in middle-income countries. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of CfC pilot study on female caregivers in a middle-income country. The expectations of the program were to find positive effects of CfC on caregivers. After conducting a literature review, we developed four domains of analysis: labor market participation, time for personal activities, use of CfC, and caregiver burnout. The results indicate that CfC has no significant impact on caregivers’ integration into the labor market, or ability to have leisure time. However, there was a positive effect on the funding of basic needs and mitigation of factors predicting burnout.

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Impact Evaluation of Cash-For-Care in Latin America’s New Long-Term Care Policies: A Randomized Controlled Trial Pilot Study in Costa Rica

Chaverri-Carvajal

Matus-López

2023

J Appl Gerontol

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“…Social protection is an efficient, redistributive way to mitigate socioeconomic impact of chronic diseases (eg, TB), and is a key component of the End TB Strategy [ 36 ]. The most commonly used form of social protection is cash and/or food vouchers.…”

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Use of a Sustainable Livelihood Framework–Based Measure to Estimate Socioeconomic Impact of Tuberculosis on Households

Timire

Pedrazzoli

Boccia

et al. 2023

Clinical Infectious Diseases

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Tuberculosis (TB) disproportionally affects impoverished members of society. The adverse socioeconomic impact of TB on households is mostly measured using money-centric approaches which have been criticised as one-dimensional and risk either overestimating or underestimating the true socioeconomic impacts of TB. We propose to use the sustainable livelihood framework, which includes five household capital assets: human, financial, physical, natural and social, and conceptualises that households employ accumulative strategies in times of plenty and coping (survival) strategies in response to shocks such as TB. The proposed measure ascertains to what extent the five capital assets are available to households affected by TB as well as the coping costs (reversible and non-reversible) that are incurred by households at different time points (intensive, continuation and post-TB treatment phase). We assert that our approach is holistic, multi-dimensional and draws attention to multisectoral responses to mitigate the socioeconomic impact of TB on households.

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“…Finally, population aging presents challenges, but also opportunities to drive the silver economy (Okumura et al, 2020, Jimenez et al, 2021. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of people over 65 with care dependence is projected to grow from eight million in 2020 to twenty-three million people by 2050 in coming decades (Aranco et al, 2022b). Caregivers' work can be enhanced by using new technologies like telecare to reduce the need for hospital admissions and residential care (Benedetti et al, 2022) and free up resource to focus on those who require more intensive support.…”

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Caring for Caregivers: The Landscape of Paid Care Work in Latin America and the Caribbean

Fabiani

2023

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Paid care work will represent an important source of employment in coming decades, as care dependence becomes more prevalent, care needs evolve, and the structure of households changes. But there is little systematic data on the care economy for paid caregivers in Latin America and the Caribbean. This report aims to fill this knowledge gap by quantifying the paid care workforce in the region and describing its sociodemographic and economic profile in 17 countries. Using the most recent pre-pandemic microdata from labor and household surveys, the report examines the care economy for care workers who serve children and adults. The study concludes that there are approximately 8.9 million paid caregivers in the region, including 5.8 million paid workers who take care of children and 3.1 million who look after older people and people with disabilities. Most professionals in the sector are women in their early forties with a secondary-level education and with limited access to social protection benefits. This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion on paid and unpaid care work by emphasizing the importance of supporting a thriving workforce in the region while redistributing the burden of care in all dimensions of human life.

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Prevalence of care dependence among older persons in 26 Latin American and the Caribbean countries

Cited by 8 publications

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Impact Evaluation of Cash-For-Care in Latin America’s New Long-Term Care Policies: A Randomized Controlled Trial Pilot Study in Costa Rica

Impact Evaluation of Cash-For-Care in Latin America’s New Long-Term Care Policies: A Randomized Controlled Trial Pilot Study in Costa Rica

Use of a Sustainable Livelihood Framework–Based Measure to Estimate Socioeconomic Impact of Tuberculosis on Households

Caring for Caregivers: The Landscape of Paid Care Work in Latin America and the Caribbean

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