Uncovering familialism: cash-for-care schemes in England and Finland

This article compares cash-for-care schemes supporting older people with health-related social care needs, as well their informal carers, in England and Finland. The meso-level policy analysis drills down into the governance arrangements underpinning schemes, including eligibility criteria, generosity territorial variations. It explores implicit explicit intentions, function effects defamilialising, familialising or refamilialising families’ caring responsibilities. reveals inconsistencies defamilialising of according to individuals’ characteristics, choices restrictions. also exposes an overarching tendency familialise refamilialise activity for people, which is exacerbated by austerity-related politics.