This group aims to explore and discuss the extent, variation (individual and country), how and why people do not get their long-term care (LTC) and support needs adequately met, and the effects on them and the family, friends and paid careworkers who provide care and support for them. The group also aims to explore and discuss how unmet need, inequalities in care, and care poverty can be understood and measured and how structural/wider factors such local and national LTC systems or the environments people live in, as well as individual factors, affect receipt of care and support. As a further aim is to reduce unmet need and inequalities, we are interested in policy successes as well as potential policy actions.

Steering group:

Teppo Kröger, Social and Public Policy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Director of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare).

Nicola Brimblecombe, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Ricardo Rodrigues, Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG), University of Lisbon, Portugal; member of the board of the Research Centre in Economic and Organisational Sociology (SOCIUS), Portugal.