Care Poverty and Unmet Needs: Inequalities in Theory and Practice [Paperback]

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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.

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Teppo Kr?ger is Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Jyv?skyl? and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare).

Nicola Brimblecombe is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ricardo Rodrigues is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Work at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG) at the University of Lisbon and Board Member of the Research Centre in Economic and Organisational Sociology (SOCIUS).

Kirstein Rummery is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Stirling.

An international collaboration of authors from different welfare settings;

Teppo Kr?ger is a leading name in the field;

Studying unmet needs and the related inequalities is a relatively novel research strand in long-term care.

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 BirminghamThis volume shows how care poverty is a powerful conceptual tool for addressing the critical problems of carelã