Projects
Rural ageing, migration and care
Project contributors: Bell D, Bowes A, Rutherford A, Schröder-Butterfill E,
This Project is part of the following research programme/s:
Overview
Objectives
This aims of this project are to investigate issues of rural ageing and the implications of migration patterns for care of older people.
It explores and projects patterns of migration and their implications for care demand and supply in order to understand how individual households plan to manage the challenges of care for older people in rural areas and to consider the implications of these findings for policies relating to care.
Methods
The project has taken a mixed methods approach with two strands: quantitative analysis using large datasets; and qualitative study of households in rural areas
The datasets included the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the Family Resources Survey (FRS) to explore the characteristics of informal carers and carees.
It also included fieldwork in two areas of the UK; one in rural Scotland and one in rural England. The fieldwork gathered qualitative interview and focus group data from around 80 older people and informal carers.
Findings
The project has shown the importance of considering informal support in older age as a care network, rather than as one-to-one.
The study has highlighted the lack of planning for older age for many people, including location, housing and care plans. It has shown the difficult decisions families face around informal care, particularly when families are increasingly further apart.
Publications & Activities
The economics of long-term care
Public Policy lecture (2015). (University of Edinburgh)
Authors: Bell D,
Discussion of costs of long-term care
Invited presentation (2015). (Scottish Quality Care Commission)
Authors: Bell D,
Informal Care in Scotland
British and Irish Longitudinal Studies of Ageing (BILS) Annual Conference (2014). (University of Strathclyde)
Authors: Bell D,
Linking Administrative Data on Health and Social Care in Scotland
British and Irish Longitudinal Studies of Ageing (BILS) Annual Conference (2014). (University of Strathclyde)
Authors: Rutherford A,
New Understandings of Age and the Lifecourse from Scotland
British Society of Gerontology 43rd Annual Conference (2014). (University of Southampton)
Authors: Bell D, Rutherford A, Wright R, Murray S,
Free Personal Care for Older People: A Wider Perspective on Its Costs
Economic Commentary (2013). 36 (3) 61-69
Authors: Bell D, Rutherford A, Wright R,
Individual and Geographic Factors in the Formation of Care Networks in the UK
Population, Space and Place – Special Issue (2013). 19 (6) 727-737
Authors: Bell D, Rutherford A,
Longitudinal studies of ageing around the world
New Perspectives on Population Ageing in Scotland (2013). (Edinburgh)
Authors: Bell D,
Older Workers and Working Time
Journal of the Economics of Ageing (2013). 1 28-34
Authors: Bell D, Rutherford A,
Migration, Intergenerational Relations and Old-Age Support: Evidence from Indonesia
Migration, (Social) Reproduction and Social Protection (2012). (University of East Anglia at London)
Authors: Schröder-Butterfill E, Kreager P,
Bell D, Bowes A, (2012) Chapter 5 - Universal Coverage of Long-Term Care in the United States
Russell Sage Foundation
Rural Ageing, Migration and Care
Migration and Ageing in the Highlands, CRFR (2012). (UHI Millennium Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands)
Authors: Bell D,
Long-term care and the housing market
2nd International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care (2012). (London)
Authors: Bell D, Rutherford A,
Who cares for whom? Rural Ageing, migration and networks of informal care
CPC Seminar (2012). (University of Southampton)
Authors: Rutherford A,
Networks of informal caring: a mixed methods approach
2nd International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care (2012). (London)
Authors: Rutherford A,
Networks of informal caring: a mixed methods approach
NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector (2012). (Birmingham)
Authors: Rutherford A,
Long-term care and the housing market
Scottish Journal of Political Economy (2012). 59 (5) 543-563
Authors: Bell D, Rutherford A,
Healthy Ageing In Scotland
GROS Presentation (2012). (Edinburgh)
Authors: Bell D,
The Impact of Devolution: Long-term care provision in the UK
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2010).
Authors: Bell D,
Ageing + Migration = Vunerability? A case to the Contrary
British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Annual Conference (2010). (University of Exeter)
Authors: Schonheinz S, Schröder-Butterfill E,
Microsimulation in a cold climate
ESRC Microsimulation Seminar (2009). (Leeds)
Authors: Bell D,
The Challenge of Elderly Care in Rural Communities
Public lecture (2009). (Inverness)
Authors: Bell D,
Media
More and more older workers want to increase working hours IZA website. 2013
Article on www.newsroom.iza.org titled "More and more older workers want to increase working hours" summarizes David Bell and Alasdair Rutherford's discussion paper on this subject.
David Bell: Defusing a care timebomb
Internet article on The Scotsman website "David Bell: Defusing a care timebomb"
