Looking Forward to Care in Old Age

Expectations of the next generation

Ros Levenson, Mercy Jeyasingham, Nikki Joule
June 2005 | ISBN 978 1 85717 493 9 | 56 pages | £6.50

What do today’s middle-aged people expect of care services in the future? Based on discussions with seven focus groups of people in their 50s, living in different communities in London, this paper reports on what kind and quality of care they want, and the type of housing, residential and community care options they expect. It also probes how roles and people’s expectations of children to care for their parents are changing.