Articles

Home-Based Care in Nigeria: Opportunities, Risks and the Growth of Formal Care Services

Home-based care is becoming an increasingly important part of Nigeria’s long-term care landscape as families seek reliable support without moving older relatives away from familiar homes and communities. This article...

Residential and Institutional Care in Nigeria: Demand, Models, Quality and Future Development

Residential care for older people remains a relatively small and culturally sensitive part of Nigeria’s long-term care landscape, but demand is changing as families disperse, care needs become more complex...

Community-Based Care in Nigeria: Building Support Closer to Home

Community-based care could become one of Nigeria’s most important responses to population ageing by connecting families, primary healthcare, community organisations and trained support closer to where older people live. This...

The Role of Families in Nigerian Long-Term Care: Strengths, Pressures and Changing Expectations

Families remain the central providers and coordinators of long-term support for many older Nigerians, but migration, employment, urbanisation, changing households and increasingly complex care needs are reshaping what family care...

Nigeria’s Health and Social Care System: Where Older People and Long-Term Support Fit

Older Nigerians move through a system in which healthcare, social welfare, family support and emerging geriatric social care remain institutionally distinct but increasingly interconnected. This article examines how federal, state...

Financing Long-Term Care in Nigeria: Household Costs, Public Spending and the Care Funding Gap

Long-term care in Nigeria is financed less through a dedicated care system than through a combination of unpaid family labour, household spending, pensions, health insurance, public programmes and privately purchased...

Who Provides Long-Term Care in Nigeria? Families, Communities, Government and the Private Sector

Long-term care in Nigeria is delivered through a mixed and often overlapping network of relatives, communities, public institutions, healthcare services, NGOs, paid caregivers and emerging professional providers. This article examines...

Ageing and Long-Term Care in Nigeria: Demographic Change, Family Support and an Emerging Care System

Nigeria remains a relatively young country, but population scale, longer lives, chronic disease and changing family structures are making later-life support an increasingly important policy and service issue. This article...