Articles

Ageing in Kenya’s Cities: How Urbanisation Is Changing Older People’s Care Needs

Kenya’s rapid urbanisation is changing where and how people grow older, reshaping family support, housing, mobility and access to care. Cities can bring older people closer to healthcare, markets and...

Ageing in Rural Kenya: Access, Distance and the Challenge of Delivering Long-Term Support

Rural ageing in Kenya brings together strong community networks and significant practical barriers to long-term support. Distance from health facilities, uneven transport, dispersed populations, workforce availability and changing family structures...

Community-Based Care for Older People in Kenya: Building Support Closer to Home

Most older Kenyans continue to live within families and communities rather than formal care settings, making local support central to the country’s evolving long-term-care system. This article examines how community...

Supporting Kenya’s Unpaid Carers: Recognition, Respite and the Future of Family Care

Kenya’s unpaid carers sustain much of the everyday support received by older people, people with disabilities and relatives with long-term health needs, yet their contribution can carry significant financial, employment...

Family Caregiving in Kenya: Can Informal Care Remain the Foundation of Long-Term Support?

Family caregiving remains central to long-term support for many older people in Kenya, sustaining daily life where formal care services are still developing. Yet urbanisation, migration, women’s employment, smaller households...

Social Protection and Older People in Kenya: From Income Security to Wider Care Support

Kenya’s social protection system gives older people an increasingly important layer of income security, with the Inua Jamii Older Persons Cash Transfer at its centre. Yet ageing can create needs...

Financing Long-Term Care in Kenya: Can the System Become More Sustainable?

Kenya finances later-life support through a combination of household resources, unpaid family care, social protection, health financing, public services, charitable provision and private spending rather than a dedicated long-term-care funding...

Who Provides Long-Term Care in Kenya? Mapping Families, Communities, Government and Providers

Long-term care in Kenya is delivered through a mixed and still-evolving network of families, communities, public services, faith-based and voluntary organisations, and private providers. This article maps where practical responsibility...

Kenya’s National Care Policy: What It Could Mean for Older People, Families and Long-Term Care

Kenya’s National Care Policy creates a new framework for recognising care as social and economic infrastructure rather than an invisible household responsibility. For older people, families and the emerging long-term-care...

Ageing and Long-Term Care in Kenya: How the Care System Is Evolving

Kenya’s approach to long-term care is evolving from a model centred predominantly on families and communities towards a broader care system involving national policy, county services, social protection, healthcare and...