Swedish Retirement Migrants in Spain: Mobility and Eldercare in an Aging Europe

Abstract

This chapter discusses the conditions for mobility and independent aging for a wide range of Swedish retirement migrants in Spain. It illuminates the mobility of older Europeans in the context of Freedom of Movement—and its limits. When Swedish retirees in Spain become increasingly dependent on eldercare, they find themselves in a country with one of the lowest rates of public provision in Europe and are left with a patchwork of private solutions. Gender, health, socio-economic conditions, as well as Swedish and Spanish provision of health- and eldercare influence the mobility of Swedish retirement migrants, especially in the case of widows and single women with low income. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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