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The care types choice in filial culture: A cross-sectional study of disabled elderly in China
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 For the past few decades, studies of care types choice have been restricted to the scope of individual characteristics and health status. Meanwhile, the historiography of the research largely ignores the role of filial culture within China.
Zheng Zang, Zheng Zang
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Erratum to: Access to timely formal dementia care in Europe: protocol of the Actifcare (ACcess to Timely Formal Care) study [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2016 Liselot Kerpershoek +20 more
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Uptake of Childcare Arrangements—Grandparental Availability and Availability of Formal Childcare
Social Sciences, 2021 Grandparents constitute an important source of childcare to many parents. Focusing on the Belgian context, this paper improves our understanding of childcare decision-making by investigating how formal childcare availability and availability of ...
Naomi Biegel +2 more
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Informal and Formal Care in Europe [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 Government expenditure on formal residential care and home-help services for the elderly significantly reduces 45-59 year old women´s informal care-giving affecting both the extensive and the intensive margin. Allowing for country fixed-effects and country-specific trends and correcting for attrition, the estimates - based on the European Community ...
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Access to timely formal dementia care in Europe: protocol of the Actifcare (ACcess to Timely Formal Care) study [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2016 Previous findings indicate that people with dementia and their informal carers experience difficulties accessing and using formal care services due to a mismatch between needs and service use. This mismatch causes overall dissatisfaction and is a waste of the scarce financial care resources.
Kerpershoek, Liselot +19 more
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The interface between formal and informal support in advanced old age: A 10-year study
International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2008 The aim of this paper is to investigate the interface between the formal and informal support provided to very old people against a background of increasing need for care and a decreasing number of potential informal caregivers.
Armi Franca +2 more
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Inequities in home care use among older Canadian adults: Are they corrected by public funding?
PLoS ONE, 2023 BackgroundAlthough care use should parallel needs, enabling and predisposing circumstances including the socio-demographic inequities of socioeconomic status (SES), gender, or isolation often intervene to diminish care. We examine whether availability of
Afshin Vafaei +6 more
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Sustaining care for a parent with dementia: an indefinite and intertwined process
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2017 This study aimed to understand how adult children sustain caring for persons with dementia (PwDs) within their family and formal care contexts in Canada. Half-day focus groups were conducted with adult daughters and adult sons in Toronto, Canada.
Amy S. Hwang +5 more
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European Psychiatry, 2022 Background Young people can receive mental health care from many sources, from formal and informal sectors. Caregiver characteristics/experiences/beliefs may influence whether young people get help and the type of care or support used by their child.
Cristiane Silvestre Paula +9 more
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Social Sciences, 2019 The aim of this study was to describe the needs and expectations of support within everyday life among community-dwelling people living well with an early stage dementia and their informal carers. The study employed a qualitative design.
Connie Lethin +6 more
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