Hanaoka, Chie; Norton, Edward C. - In: Social Science & Medicine 67 (2008) 6, pp. 1002-1008
Informal care by adult children remains the most common source of caregiving for elderly parents in Japan, even after the introduction of long-term care insurance in 2000. We estimate how the potential supply of child caregivers affects the use of formal care of elderly parents, focusing on the...