Informal care of the elderly by their adult children is a common form of long-term care, is often preferred by the elderly to formal care, and can reduce medical expenditures if it substitutes for formal care. Much work has been done to characterize informal caregivers. However, there is a...
Instrumental variables (IV) estimation controls for the simultaneity of informal and formal care. Informal care reduces home health care use and delays nursing home entry. 展开 关键词:informal care health care elderly long-term care DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2004.04.008 被引量: 862 ...
Effect of informal care on health care utilisation for the elderly in urban and rural China: evidence from China health and retirement longitudinal study (CHARLS) Article Open access 01 March 2022 Making visible the cost of informal caregivers’ time in Latin America: a case study for major ...
Presents a study on the health of young and elderly informal carers: analysis of UK census data. Concern for the health and welfare of people who provide informal care for family or friends with chronic illness; Focus on young and elderly as vulnerable groups in their own right; Participants,...
Conclusion It is important to recognize the discrepancies between the health state preferences of various stakeholders to (1) correctly interpret results when studying the effectiveness of interventions in elderly care and (2) establish appropriate healthcare policies. Furthermore, we should strive to ...
Over 80 percent of a sample of community-living elderly were self-sufficient in performing basic activities of daily living (ADL); only 18 percent were self-sufficient in performing instrumental ADL. Most elders who use long-term care assistance relied solely on the informal support network in bo...
section of Geriatric Medicine (F4–108), Amsterdam, The Netherlands* Cynthia.Hofman@Radboudumc.nlAbstractBackgroundThe Older Persons and Informal Caregivers Survey—Minimum Dataset (TOPICS-MDS)collects uniform information from research projects funded under the Dutch National Carefor the Elderly Programme....
A provision of partial or full compensation for elderly care at home is recommendable and a viable option to improve their quality of lives. 展开 关键词: formal and informal home care healthcare outcomes health disparity nursing home care
A meta-synthesis describing the relationships between patients, informal caregivers and health professiona... Michael,Bauer - 《Evidence Based Nursing》 被引量: 0发表: 2012年 Relationships between nurses and family caregivers: partners in care? Increasing reliance on family care of elderly people at ...
Channeling Evaluation: Informal Care to the Impaired Elderly: Report of the National Long Term Care Demonstration Survey of Informal Caregivers A. (1984). "Informal Care to the Impaired Elderly: Report of the Channeling Survey of Informal Caregivers", U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...