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As it was stated above, the di erence between care needs and received support creates so-called unmet care needs among older adults, which may lower the quality of life and subjective well-being among older people. Here, two categories of the unmet needs will be presented: type 1 determines the situation when an older individual with at least one limitation in ADL/IADL does not receive any kind of informal care, while type 2 is de- ned when this person does not receive any care (informal and formal). e results are presented in Figure 17 and Figure 18. In general, in all the countries 49% of the respon- dents with ADL/IADL limitation do not receive informal care (unmet needs type 1), but when formal care is accounted for, this share drops to 39.5%. e biggest unmet needs were observed in Portugal and Spain, while the lowest share of unmet needs was in the Czech Republic and Croatia. It is worth emphasizing that the di erences between the two types of estimated unmet care needs where the smallest in the countries with un- derdeveloped public/formal care services (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Estonia and Croatia). moreover, bigger unmet care needs were observed among people aged 65–79 than for those aged 80 years and more (Figure 18). Spain and Portugal stand out in both age groups with the highest share of unmet needs. Central and Eastern European countries have the smallest di erence between two groups of unmet needs, indicating that these countries do not have much help from formal care services not in any age group, contrary to the Southern European countries where the unmet needs are reduced at the expense of the formal care services, in particular in the older age group.
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Figure 17. Share of people aged 65+ with at least one ADL or IADL limitation with unmet care needs Source: own elaboration based on the 6th wave of SHARE (weighted results).
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