Table 2.

Hypotheses on the Relationship Between Care Regimes and Inequality

	General level of stratification expected	Mechanisms
Denmark	Low	Highly universalistic (services) provision and defamilialized policies should allow individuals to access to formal care almost independently from their own resources
France	Low	The strong bias toward services and a very targeted distribution system should foster a low level of inequality
Germany	Not clear	The universalistic approach and the intermediate level of public services provision should foster destratification; however, the spread diffusion of cash allowances might work in the other direction
Italy	Medium-to-high	The relevance of cash-for-care programs, characterized by limited generosity, and the scarce diffusion of services make more likely more affluent elderly individuals than poorer ones to access LTC services on the market

Note. LTC = long-term care.