Willingness to provide informal care to older adults in Germany: a discrete choice experiment

• DOI: 10.1007/s10198-022-01483-5
• Publication Date: 2022-06-11T14:02:46Z
• Authors: Lea de Jong; Torben Schmidt; Jona Theodor Stah...; Sveja Eberhard; Jan Zeidler; Kathrin Damm
• Keywords: Mixed logit; Sample (material); Discrete choice; Danish

As the German population is continually aging and majority of older adults still wish to 'age in place', need for informal care provided by family friends will correspondingly continue increase. In addition, while formal (professional) services also likely increase, supply already does not meet demand Germany today. The aim our study elicitation people's willingness provide means a discrete choice experiment. self-complete postal survey was disseminated random sample general Lower Saxony. Data cleansing resulted final size 280 participants. A conditional logit latent class model were estimated. All attributes judged as highly relevant respondents. results revealed that an increase hours per day had greatest negative impact overall on sample. marginal willingness-to-accept 1 h €14.54 when having 8 reference 2 day. This value considerably higher than national minimum wage €9.82. three-class preference heterogeneity. While monetary compensation often discussed availability country, show this statement could be generalized within entire