ABSTRACT
Despite sharing a tradition of publicly funded, publicly provided eldercare services, Sweden and Norway have been affected by the global trend to marketization in recent years, including opening up the nursing home sector to for-profit actors. There is, however, a significant difference between the two countries in the intensity of this privatizing trend: before 1990, there were no commercial nursing homes in either country, while in today’s Norway, for-profit actors operate 6 percent of nursing home beds compared to 18 percent in Sweden.
