abstract: 'Societies experiencing rapid demographic transition may expect to face

  challenges such as accelerated population aging and increasing

  care-related needs. Decentralization of welfare states and resultant

  fragmentation of services is gaining increasing attention. In this

  study, we offer suggestions of how developing countries might move from

  fragmentation to integration of social and health care services. Using

  the Health Survey of Turkey (HST-2012) data with 15,000 households of

  populations'' age 15 and older, we explore challenges to integrating

  social and health care service strategies in Turkey. Findings include

  inequities in material and service accessibility between rural and urban

  settings. Increasing numbers of older widowed women, especially in rural

  environments, will require direct income assistance over the coming

  decades. Additional findings include the need for primary and

  preventative health care services for middle age groups and strategies

  to address both unemployment among younger generations and barriers to

  work force participation for women. In conclusion, among rapid

  transition societies, it will take time to resolve

  decentralization-related regional inequalities in social and health

  services. Therefore, information and communications technologies (ICT)

  should be employed from an intersectionality perspective to more quickly

  bridge the services integration - regional inequalities gap in Turkey

  and possibly other societies in transition.'
affiliation: 'Arun, O (Corresponding Author), Akdeniz Univ, Dept Gerontol, TR-07058
  Antalya, Turkey.

  Arun, Ozgur, Akdeniz Univ, Dept Gerontol, TR-07058 Antalya, Turkey.

  Holdsworth, Jason K., Senex Assoc Aging Studies, Hamilton, ON, Canada.'
article-number: '100850'
author: Arun, Ozgur and Holdsworth, Jason K.
author-email: arun@akdeniz.edu.tr
author_list:
- family: Arun
  given: Ozgur
- family: Holdsworth
  given: Jason K.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2020.100850
eissn: 1879-193X
files: []
issn: 0890-4065
journal: JOURNAL OF AGING STUDIES
keywords: 'Social and health care services; Demographic transition; Inequalities;

  Intersectionality; Correspondence analysis; Turkey'
keywords-plus: SCIENCE; LIFE
language: English
month: JUN
number-of-cited-references: '45'
papis_id: 9c224104b8e07c9cec1027c900d600b5
ref: Arun2020integratedsocial
times-cited: '2'
title: 'Integrated social and health care services among societies in transition:
  Insights from Turkey'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000537564800004
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '9'
volume: '53'
web-of-science-categories: Gerontology
year: '2020'