Cash-for-care and its impact on older adults’ informal and formal long-term care use: evidence from continental European countries

This study examines whether receipt of cash-for-care (CFC) benefits promotes or displaces family-based informal or, conversely, formal long-term care use. Utilizing cross-national data from four waves (2015–2021) of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) covering Austria, Belgium, France, and Germany, generalized linear models — accounting for variations in granting of these benefits — are applied. With CFC having become increasingly widespread in those traditionally cons