@article{ref1,
title="The right to care? Social citizenship and care poverty in developed welfare states",
journal="International journal of sociology and social policy",
year="2023",
author="Rummery, Kirstein",
volume="43",
number="1/2",
pages="33-47",
abstract="PURPOSE There are clear theoretical, policy and practice tensions in conceptualising social or long-term care as a &quot;right&quot;: an enforceable choice. The purpose of this article is to address the following questions: Do disabled and older citizens have the right to long-term care? What do these rights look like under different care regimes? Do citizens have the right or duty to *provide* long-term care? It is already known that both formal and informal care across all welfare contexts is mainly provided by women and that this has serious implications for gender equality. <br><br>DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH In this article, the author takes a conceptual approach to examining the comparative evidence from developed welfare states with formal long-term care provision and the different models of care, to challenge feminist care theory from the perspective of those living in care poverty (i.e. with insufficient access to long-term care and support to meet their citizenship rights). <br><br>FINDINGS Drawing on her own comparative research on models of long-term and &quot;personalised&quot; care, the author finds that different models of state provision and different models of personalised care provide differential citizenship outcomes for carers and those needing care. The findings indicate that well-governed personalised long-term care provides the best outcomes in terms of balancing potentially conflicting citizenship claims and addressing care poverty. <br><br>ORIGINALITY/VALUE The author develops new approaches to care theory based on citizenship and care poverty that have not been published elsewhere, drawing on models that she developed herself.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0144-333X",
doi="10.1108/IJSSP-09-2021-0229",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-09-2021-0229"
}