Family Care and Generations
How the world celebratesFamily care is not only a question of living together: it is also about who is legally responsible and where support can be requested.
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How is it done in Brazil?
Brazil's Statute of the Older Person (Law 10,741) sets sixty as the threshold and lays out a full set of rights in its articles: the duty of support, priority in medical care, free or reduced public transport and more. It writes caring for older people as a set of claimable rights rather than only an arrangement inside the family: institutions and service providers carry corresponding duties, and breaches can be pursued. In practice the family is still the main carer, but the door for asserting a right is a public one. Priority in medical care and free transport are the two rights most often actually used.
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How is it done in China?
Mainland China writes filial support into law. Article 18 of the Law on Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly requires family members to attend to older people's emotional needs and not to neglect or slight them; family members living apart from an older relative shall visit or greet them regularly; and employers shall guarantee the supporting relative's right to home leave. Article 19 adds that a supporter may not refuse the duty of support by giving up an inheritance or on any other ground. Visiting home, in other words, is not merely advice here — it is in the text of the statute. Beyond the text of the law, the actual caring is still shared between children and hired carers.
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How is it done in Indonesia?
Indonesia frames elder care through Law No. 13 of 1998 on the welfare of older people, dividing responsibility between the state, society and the family, and setting sixty as the threshold for lanjut usia. In practice care still leans heavily on family and neighbourhood networks, with multi-generational households common; religious communities and posyandu lansia — integrated service posts for older people — fill part of the gap at neighbourhood level. Care here is therefore neither a purely family duty nor a purely state benefit. Religious institutions and neighbourhood organisations fill a good deal of the gap between the state and the family in practice.
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How is it done in India?
India assigns the duty of support directly by law. The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007 makes children and specified relatives legally liable to maintain older people, with sons and daughters — including daughters- and sons-in-law — equally liable. Each sub-division has a tribunal presided over by the Revenue Divisional Officer, where an older person can apply for a monthly allowance capped at ten thousand rupees a month; appeals go within sixty days to an appellate tribunal chaired by the District Collector. Maintenance is defined to include food, clothing, residence and medical treatment. The existence of the tribunal turns support from a moral question inside the household into a claim that can be adjudicated.
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How is it done in Japan?
Japan has run long-term care insurance since 2000: people aged forty and over pay premiums, and those sixty-five and over — or aged forty to sixty-four with specified conditions — can use services after a care-need certification. The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare frames it as a system in which society as a whole supports care, explicitly moving part of the load out of the household. A great deal of family caregiving remains in practice, along with people leaving jobs to care, but the default the system assumes is not that relatives carry it alone. The certified level of need sets the allowance available, so the first step is almost always applying for the assessment.
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How is it done in Taiwan?
In Taiwan the weight of care sits on public services: the Long-Term Care 2.0 programme groups them into care and professional services, transport, assistive devices and home accessibility, and respite care, with the 1966 hotline as the entry point and each city's care management centre assessing the level of disability before approving an allowance. In practice a family first makes a phone call and goes through an assessment before learning how much support it can draw — care here is an entitlement you apply for, not a default obligation. Waiting for the assessment and the shortage of carers are the two bottlenecks families run into most often.
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How is it done in United States?
The United States does not write filial duty into national law; public support is concentrated in insurance and benefits: Medicare provides health coverage from sixty-five, while long-term care falls mainly to Medicaid, private insurance and out-of-pocket payment. So the division of labour within a family tends to be decided by who has money, who has time and who lives nearby, rather than assigned by statute. Moving between states is common, so caregiving often means long-distance coordination, taking turns with leave, or hiring a carer. The cost of long-term care is the single largest uncertain expense in a family's finances.
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