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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Objectives To investigate the association between clinical, demographic, and organizational factors and formal (health professionals) and informal (relatives) resource utilization in nursing home patients with and without dementia.
Maarja Vislapuu +6 more
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Investigating Integration of Formal and Informal Care in Primary and Community Care
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2022 Introduction: According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Long-Term Care (LTC) services are becoming increasingly crucial given population aging and require a structured deinstitutionalization of care for the elderly.
F. De Luca +3 more
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Health Expectations, 2023 Introduction Integrated care can create several advantages, such as better quality of care and better outcomes. These advantages apply especially to clients with multiple problems (CWMPs) who have multiple, interconnected needs that span health and ...
Lieke Reinhoudt‐den Boer +2 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background The substitute or complementary effect of formal care on informal care service used by the elderly has been tested in Western countries. However, this effect is excluded from the discussion in the Chinese context.
Wenyi LIN
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PLoS ONE, 2020 BACKGROUND:Middle-aged and older adults are more likely to suffer from chronic conditions, which can increase their need for both formal and informal care.
Wei Zhang, Huiying Sun
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PLoS ONE, 2017 The need for formal care among the elderly population has been increasing due to their greater longevity and the evolution of family structure. We examined the determinants of the use and expenses of formal care among in-home elderly adults in Shanghai ...
Fen Li +7 more
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Gaps in Palliative Care Education among Neonatology Fellowship Trainees
Palliative Medicine Reports, 2021 Background: To provide proper care for infants at risk for death, neonatologists need expertise in many areas of palliative care. Although neonatology training programs have implemented a wide variety of palliative care educational programs, the impact ...
Catherine Lydia Wraight +2 more
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ProxyCare: Integrating Informal Care into Formal Settings [PDF]
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2015 Chronic care is complex and involves patients, carers, and clinicians. Technology for chronic care has been developed to support formal and informal care settings. However, the integration between these two care settings has rarely been investigated. In this paper, we describe ProxyCare, an informal care technology for people living with dementia (PwD),
Florian Güldenpfennig +2 more
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Health Insurance and Long-Term Care Services for the Disabled Elderly in China: Based on CHARLS Data
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2020 Linhong Chen, 1, 2 Xiaolu Zhang, 3 Xiaocang Xu 4 1Department of Applied Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Public ...
Chen L, Zhang X, Xu X
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BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background The purpose of this paper is to analyse the utilization of formal and informal home care among older patients with cancer (OCP) and to compare this with middle-aged patients with cancer (MCP) and older patients without cancer (ONC ...
Abdelbari Baitar +6 more
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