Dr Susan Maury @SusanMaury
Jenny Chanfreau (@JenChanf) provides some reflections on gendered patterns of how adults assist their ageing parents, analysed according to sibling composition. This post is based on Jenny’s article in Ageing & Society, and first appeared on the FemQuant blog.
Read More‘Competition’ is often seen as a major driver of quality and efficiency in social care markets. But a team from the University of Melbourne conducted a study into the effect of competition on a range of nursing home quality and price measures, and found no evidence that competition increases quality of care, and only a weak association between competition and price. In today’s post, originally published on the Conversation, Ou Yang, Anthony Scott, Jongsay Yong and Yuting Zhang report on their findings.
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