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How staff characteristics influence residential care facility staff’s attitude toward person-centered care and informal care [PDF]

BMC Nursing, 2021
Background Staff members, and their attitudes, are crucial for providing person-centered care in residential care facilities for people with dementia.
Jogé Boumans, Leonieke van Boekel, Nathalie Kools, Aukelien Scheffelaar, Caroline Baan, Katrien Luijkx   +5 more
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Informal care in different European care systems: Effects of caregiving on mental health over time. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
BackgroundThe study explores the impact of informal caregiving on mental health within different European care systems, recognizing the significant role of informal care due to demographic changes and the shortage of formal care options.
Leonie Börner, Ingo W K Kolodziej, Jürgen Wasem, Carina Abels   +3 more
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Trauma-Informed Care [PDF]

Pediatrics, 2021
Most children will experience some type of trauma during childhood, and many children suffer from significant adversities. Research in genetics, neuroscience, and epidemiology all provide evidence that these experiences have effects at the molecular, cellular, and organ level, with consequences on physical, emotional, developmental, and behavioral ...
Heather Forkey, Moira Szilagyi, Erin T. Kelly, James Duffee, Sarah H. Springer, Kristine Fortin, Veronnie Fay Jones, Mary Booth Vaden Greiner, Todd J. Ochs, Anu N. Partap, Linda Davidson Sagor, Mary Allen Staat, Jonathan D. Thackeray, Douglas Waite, Lisa Weber Zetley   +14 more
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Forecasting Informal care needs of the urban-rural older adults in China based on microsimulation model [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Background Forecasting the intensity, source, and cost of informal care for older adults in China is essential to establish and enhance policy support systems for informal care within the context of East Asian traditional culture that emphasizes filial ...
Liangwen Zhang, Shuyuan Shen, Wenzheng Zhang, Ya Fang   +3 more
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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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