Implementing the French elderly care allowance for home-based care: bureaucratic work, professional cultures and gender frames

Care realities are characterised by important differences between men and women. At the end of the 1990s, women were overrepresented among the oldest sections of the French population, as well as among their unpaid and paid helpers. Nevertheless, when the current national benefit scheme for elderly people needing long-term care (the APA (Allocation Personnalisée d’Autonomie)) was adopted in France, it was not explicitly framed with gender issues...