[Live-in care in Germany: A qualitative content analysis of social and political discourses].

Background: In Germany, Eastern European live-in carers are filling a gap in home-based long-term care for older persons. As a care reality fraught with diverse problems, live-in care is an unregulated care format bordering between formal and informal structures and has so far received little attention from health services research. The aim of the qualitative study described here was to analyze the current discourses among stakeholders from care practice, politics, and associations, as well as the arguments contained therein regarding the status quo and future of live-in care.

Conceptualisations of good care and conflicts in live-in migrant care arrangements for people with dementia - perspectives of family caregivers in Germany.

Background: In Germany, live-in migrant carers provide essential social, emotional and physical support to a growing number of community-dwelling people with dementia. However, opaque legal regulations and employment models as well as a lack of formal supervision for families employing live-in migrant carers contribute to the vulnerability of these already strained arrangements. This study analyses the family caregivers' perspective, their conceptualisations of good dementia live-in migrant care and conflicts that arise in live-in care arrangements.

Perceived age and perceived health among a Chinese cohort: Does it mean the same thing?

Background & Aims: Previous investigations have aimed at investigating parameters affecting age perception on several ethnicities. Perceived health has been a newer focus on Caucasian skin, yet little is known on the skin features used to estimate the health status of Chinese women and we aimed to investigate whether these cues are the same as those used for age perception.

Methods: Age and health appearance of 276 Chinese female volunteers were estimated from their photographs by 1025 female naïve Chinese graders 20-69 years old.