@article{article_276232, title={CARE SHORTAGES IN LATER LIFE: THE ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL AND CONTEXTUAL VARIABLES IN FLANDERS, BELGIUM}, journal={International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies}, volume={2}, pages={111–118}, year={2010}, author={Witte, Nico De and Buffel, Tine and Donder, Liesbeth De and Dury, Sarah and Verté, Dominique}, keywords={care shortages, ageing in place, housing arrangements, older people, environmental gerontology}, abstract={Like many other European countries, Belgium has a strong policy of ‘ageing in place’. Older people are invited to stay as long as possible in their own home/environment. This policy is instigated by shortages in nursing homes and preferences of the older people themselves. Although Belgium is considered to have an effective social security system, 6.4 % of the older people living at home report care shortages. In order to analyze these care shortages, we used - data from our own survey, the Belgian Ageing Studies (BAS). In over 100 cities in Flanders, Belgium, a stratified sample was drawn from the population data, using gender and age as stratification. A sample of 64280 residents aged sixty and over was interviewed between January 2004 and December 2009. The results show that both individual, socio-demographic and contextual variables like regional differences, living conditions and housing are needed to explain care shortages among older people.}, number={1}, publisher={Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Derneği}