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Burden of informal care in stroke survivors and its determinants: a prospective observational study in an Asian setting

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Informal caregiving is an integral part of post-stroke recovery with strenuous caregiving demands often resulting in caregiving burden, threatening sustainability of caregiving and potentially impacting stroke survivor’s outcomes.
Yi Wang, Shilpa Tyagi, Helen Hoenig, Kim En Lee, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Edward Menon, Deidre Anne De Silva, Philip Yap, Boon Yeow Tan, Sherry H. Young, Yee Sien Ng, Tian Ming Tu, Yan Hoon Ang, Keng He Kong, Rajinder Singh, Reshma A. Merchant, Hui Meng Chang, Chou Ning, Angela Cheong, Gerald Choon-Huat Koh   +19 more
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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)

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Receiving informal care from family members is the mainstream way of care for the elderly in China because of the influence of the culture of filial piety.
Xinlan Chen, Dai Su, Xinlin Chen, Yingchun Chen   +3 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, Karel Neels, Layla Van den Berg   +2 more
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Formal and Informal Care: Complementary or Substitutes in Care for Elderly People? Empirical Evidence From China

SAGE Open, 2021
To integrate the care resources of the elderly, while promoting the development of formal social care resources, some countries have gradually turned to the development of family informal care resources.
Huan Liu
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Making visible the cost of informal caregivers’ time in Latin America: a case study for major cardiovascular, cancer and respiratory diseases in eight countries

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Informal care is a key element of health care and well-being for society, yet it is scarcely visible and rarely studied in health economic evaluations.
Natalia Espinola, Andrés Pichon-Riviere, Agustín Casarini, Andrea Alcaraz, Ariel Bardach, Caitlin Williams, Federico Rodriguez Cairoli, Federico Augustovski, Alfredo Palacios   +8 more
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Cost analysis of informal care: estimates from a national cross-sectional survey in Sweden

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Over the past decades, informal care has increased in most OECD-countries. Informal care is costly to caregivers and to society in the form of lost income and direct costs of providing care.
Björn Ekman, Kevin McKee, Joana Vicente, Lennart Magnusson, Elizabeth Hanson   +4 more
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Changing Trends and the Effectiveness of Informal Care Among Rural Elderly Adults in China

SAGE Open, 2023
The economic and social transformation of rural areas, coupled with the decline of family-based elderly care and increasing health risks, necessitates in-depth research on the effectiveness of informal care for rural elderly adults.
Lianjie Wang, Yao Tang
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Informal child care and adolescent psychological well-being: Hong Kong's "Children of 1997" birth cohort. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Informal child care (child care by untrained family members, relatives or employees in the home) in Western populations is often associated with poorer psychological well-being, which may be confounded by socioeconomic position.
Cherry Y Leung, Gabriel M Leung, C Mary Schooling   +2 more
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Characteristics and well-being of urban informal home care providers during COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based study

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed many healthcare systems, which has hampered access to routine clinical care during lockdowns.
Kevin KC Hung, Samuel YS Wong, Nina Gobat, Jean H Kim, Emily YY Chan, Eugene SK Lo, Zhe Huang, Heidi Hung, Eliza LY Wong   +8 more
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Community Care and the Care Transition in the Netherlands

Journal of Social Intervention, 2016
“Community care” en de zorgtransitie in Nederland De transitie in de gezondheidszorg in Nederland is al jaren een centraal thema in de politiek en het maatschappelijke debat.
Ymke Kelders, Sanne ten Hoeve, Rick Kwekkeboom, Yvette Wittenberg, Stefanie van Zal, Linda Schmale   +5 more
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