Growing numbers of elderly people, combined with falling birthrates, have generated increas ing interest within most western European and Scandinavian countries in measures which might increase the supply of care-giving labour while at the same time reducing the unit costs of that labour. To what extent, and how, might expensive formal service provision be replaced by less costly and more plentiful help from informal sources; and what is the role of the welfare state in protecting and regulating the different interests of those who give and those who receive care on an informal basis?
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