ABOUT BOOK

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. ~ ~ 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.