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analysed countries the share of older respondents with severe long-standing limitations in usual activities rises with age for both sexes. e proportion of severely limited men increases from 10% for the 65–69 age-group to 23% for the oldest age-group (85+). For older women this percentage amounted to 9% for persons aged 65–69 and 29% for those aged 85+. Similarly, the share of older males with at least one ADL limitation changes from about 7% in the 65–69 age-group to 25% in the oldest age group, while for wo- men these percentages amounted to 7% and 30%, respectively (Figure 6). An analogous pattern may be seen for changes in the share of persons with at least one IADL limitation (Figure 7). Again, substantial di erences among the analysed countries should be under- lined, but with smaller diversity as regards ADL and IADL limitations than referring to the percentage of severely limited older adults.
reCeiVing Care by olDer people in the analyseD european Countries
In the present analysis based on the data collected in the 6th wave of the SHARE, it was possible to examine the structure of received informal care (from someone living in the same household, from a person outside the household and both) as well as formal care and the combination of the two of them. Figure 8 presents the structure of all the per- sons aged 65 years and more by the type of received informal care. The obtained results show that a majority of older people (almost 75%) did not receive any type of informal care. Part of them may be in a good health condition and may not need help, but some of them do need support but do not receive it. Almost 23% of people aged 65+ obtain help from a person living outside the household. Very rarely (about 1–2%) they recei- ve care from someone within the household, which is surprising as a majority of older people lived in multi-person households. Probably this may be explained by the fact that older people living with others do not perceive the received help as care. As stated earlier, the considered countries differ signi cantly in terms of the structure of informal care: the highest proportion of older people receiving help from an informal network was observed in the Czech Republic (40%), Estonia (36.5%), Croatia (36.5%) and Aust- ria (35%), while the lowest in Portugal (11.9%), Spain (14.3%) and Luxemburg (19%).
e picture changes when we limit the sample to the respondents with at least one limitation in ADL or IADL, however, still half of this group do not receive any support (Figure 9). It should be noted that the share of older people receiving care within the household and receiving both types of care is higher than for the total population.
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