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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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Lived experiences of informal caregivers of people with chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review and meta-ethnography [PDF]

, 2021
BACKGROUND: People with chronic pain often seek support from friends and family for everyday tasks. These individuals are termed informal caregivers. There remains uncertainty regarding the lived experiences of these people who care for individuals with ...
Bowlby J., Bronfenbrenner U, GBD, Major CH, Mease P., Merskey H, Sofaer-Bennett B   +6 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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Psychologically informed health care

Translational Behavioral Medicine, 2023
Abstract The term “psychologically informed health care” refers to the comprehensive integration of psychological principles into health care. Psychologically informed health care has the potential to lead to a transformation of care, resulting in truly transdisciplinary care.
Joost Dekker, Samuel F Sears, Pernilla Åsenlöf, Katherine Berry   +3 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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Is the Availability of Informal Care Associated with a Lower Uptake in Formal Home Care? An Application to Personal Care in the Netherlands

Journal of Long-Term Care, 2021
Context: Long-term care (LTC) costs within member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are rising steeply, thereby presenting a challenge to the financial sustainability of most LTC systems.
Daisy Duell, Marielle Non, Anne Marieke Braam, Lara Leloup, France Portrait   +4 more
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Sociodemographic aspects and health care-related outcomes: a latent class analysis of informal dementia care dyads

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Studies revealed the importance to assess dementia care dyads, composed of persons with dementia and their primary informal caregivers, in a differentiated way and to tailor support services to particular living and care circumstances ...
Henrik Wiegelmann, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Werner Brannath, Farhad Arzideh, Jan Dreyer, Rene Thyrian, Liane Schirra-Weirich, Lisa Verhaert   +7 more
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Work-life imbalance: informal care and paid employment [PDF]

, 2008
In the United Kingdom informal carers are people who look after relatives or friends who need extra support because of age, physical or learning disability or illness. The majority of informal carers are women and female carers also care for longer hours
Arber Sara, Baldwin Sally, Carvel John, Claire Hulme, Fiona Carmichael, Folbre Nancy, Gemma Connell, Maher Joanne, Nolan Michael, Pavalko Eliza K., Sally Sheppard, Stalker Kirsten   +11 more
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