The concept of ‘care poverty’ highlights thestructural and policy contexts of the phenomenon of unmet needs andemphasises the need to understand deprivation of adequate care in the sameway as deprivation of material resources, that is, as a social inequality rootedin how resources are distributed between different population groups insociety (Kröger et al, 2019; Kröger, 2022). According to this approach, onlyby addressing these structural issues is it possible to find effective strategiesto address the unmet needs that older people experience in their daily lives