Ageing at home, co-residence or institutionalisation? Preferred care and residential arrangements of older adults in Spain

摘要: This paper examines the opinions of Spanish older people regarding ideal living situation in later life – their own home, co-residing a relative's home or institutionalisation differentiating between two hypothetical situations: healthy ageing and frailty. Data are drawn from Instituto de Mayores y Servicios Sociales (Institute Older People Social Services; IMSERSO) survey Encuesta 2010 (Older Survey 2010), comprising 2,535 individuals aged 65 over private dwellings. The results confirm that residential preferences vary depending on expected health conditions. Remaining one's is preferred when foresee old age, whilst co-residence at turns into favoured solution if have to face some physical cognitive limitation. particularities context family-oriented values about care responsibilities structural deficiency provision formal support, addition other socio-demographic, psychological attitudinal aspects, were explanatory factors lower desirability for case findings question uniform image ‘ageing place’ as preference, inviting reflections need distinguish later-life stages national contexts.