A DYADIC APPROACH TO ADDRESSING THE UNMET NEEDS OF CAREGIVING DYADS: ANALYSIS OF THE INCLUSIVENESS OF THE SLOVENIAN LONG TERM CARE ACT

Caregiving is a dyadic relationship consisting of the person who receives and the person who provides care. In order to prevent needs among them going unmet, long-term care policy should adequately address the needs of both dyad members and thus holistically approach the issue of unmet needs within caregiving dyads. The article analyses the inclusiveness of informal caregivers and hence a dyadic perspective to caregiving in the Long-Term Care (LTC) Act (ZdOsk-1) in Slovenia. The LTC Act is shown to have focused on care receivers and, except for the right to a caregiver family member, fails to recognise the dyadic nature of caregiving. Keywords: long-term care, caregiving-dyad, unmet needs, long-term care policy.