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Pettersson, Hanna; Katzin, Mirjam --- "Legal approaches to private and public responsibilities for elder care" [2017] ELECD 490; in Numhauser-Henning, Ann (ed), "Elder Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 287

Book Title: Elder Law

Editor(s): Numhauser-Henning, Ann

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785369087

Section: Chapter 12

Section Title: Legal approaches to private and public responsibilities for elder care

Author(s): Pettersson, Hanna; Katzin, Mirjam

Number of pages: 22

Abstract/Description:

Elder care is becoming a private responsibility to an increasing extent, even in welfare-state-oriented countries such as Sweden. This chapter examines Swedish legal responses to this development from the 1970s onwards. While the legal responsibility to provide municipal support for long-term family caregivers has been strengthened, its main role appears to consist in smoothening the ongoing process towards partial reprivatization. As for short-term family care, case law demonstrates that the pronounced goal of elder care as a public responsibility restricts the right to benefits in cases where family members take on responsibilities as a result of strained public resources. Elder care, family care, support for family caregivers, family care allowance, privatization, care work