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Informal Care vs. Formal Services

Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 1996
Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes in patterns and costs of care, both informal and formal. It was found that use of formal services was usually in conjunction with, and secondary to, informal care.
S, Tennstedt, B, Harrow, S, Crawford
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Informal and formal care for elderly persons: How adult children's characteristics affect the use of formal care in Japan

Social Science & Medicine, 2008
Informal care by adult children remains the most common source of caregiving for elderly parents in Japan, even after the introduction of long-term care insurance in 2000. We estimate how the potential supply of child caregivers affects the use of formal care of elderly parents, focusing on the differences across children.
Chie, Hanaoka, Edward C, Norton
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Elderly care policy, formal and informal care the Swedish case

Health Policy, 1991
This paper discusses the consequences of a 'greying' Sweden with respect to the present Swedish policy for the care of the elderly and the role of the family as care provider for the elderly. The present system of elderly welfare is questioned, based on demographic facts, a review of the service systems and research findings.
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Formal Modeling and Analysis of Home Care Plans

2014
A home care plan defines all the services provided for a given patient at his/her own home and permits the coordination of the involved health care professionals. In this paper, we present a DSL (Domain specific language) based approach tailored to express home care plans using high level and user-oriented abstractions.
Kahina Gani, Marinette Bouet, Michel Schneider, Farouk Toumani   +3 more
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Balancing Formal and Informal Care

Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 1996
Implications of the presence of informal help for the adequacy of formal home care services are examined in a public program that restricts service authorizations to needs that are not addressed by informal caregivers. Four areas of need were examined: local transportation, shopping, housecleaning, and dressing/bathing.
F G, Caro, A L, Stern
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Formal, Informal, and Care Economies

2015
AbstractThis chapter outlines key feminist contributions to understanding the contested meanings of formal, informal, and care economies. It first examines feminist efforts at making visible the essential yet generally unacknowledged unpaid household labor of women. Second, it examines tensions around viewing care work—in both its unpaid and paid forms—
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Formal Caregiving in Home Care

Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 2001
M, Futrell, C A, Saulnier, S C, Reinhard
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The Role of Formal Care

2020
Mary M. Ball, Frank J. Whittington
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Formal Care

2021
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Does the amount of formal care affect informal care? Evidence among over-60s in France

European Journal of Health Economics, 2021
Elsa Perdrix, Quitterie Roquebert
exaly