Willingness to provide informal care to older adults in Germany: a discrete choice experiment

Author:

de Jong LeaORCID,Schmidt Torben,Stahmeyer Jona Theodor,Eberhard Sveja,Zeidler Jan,Damm Kathrin

Abstract

AbstractAs the German population is continually aging and the majority of older adults still wish to ‘age in place’, the need for informal care provided by family and friends will correspondingly continue to increase. In addition, while the need for formal (professional) care services is also likely to increase, the supply already does not meet the demand in Germany today. The aim of our study is the elicitation of people’s willingness to provide informal care by means of a discrete choice experiment. The self-complete postal survey was disseminated to a random sample of the German general population in Lower Saxony. Data cleansing resulted in a final sample size of 280 participants. A conditional logit and a latent class model were estimated. All attributes were judged as highly relevant by the respondents. The results revealed that an increase in the care hours per day had the greatest negative impact overall on the willingness to provide informal care in our sample. The marginal willingness-to-accept for 1 h of informal care was €14.54 when having to provide informal care for 8 h in reference to 2 h per day. This value is considerably higher than the national minimum wage of €9.82. A three-class latent class model revealed preference heterogeneity. While a monetary compensation is often discussed to increase the willingness and availability of informal care in a country, our results show that this statement could not be generalized within our entire sample.

Funder

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Health Policy,Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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