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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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The cyclicality of informal care

Journal of Health Economics, 2020
This paper measures the cyclicality of an important input into elderly health: informal care. Using independent survey measures of informal caregiving and care receipt over the past two decades, we find that informal care from adult children to their elderly parents is countercyclical.
Corina, Mommaerts, Yulya, Truskinovsky
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Inform with Care: Ethics and Information in Care for People with Dementia [PDF]

Ethics and Social Welfare, 2015
Good care is often positioned as a natural by-product of the widespread availability of good information (‘inform to care’). This paper contests this association through empirical investigation of the information–care relationship in the context of dementia care.
Barnes, Marian, Henwood, Flis
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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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The relationship between formal and informal care among Chinese older adults: based on the 2014 CLHLS dataset

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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Shadow and extended shadow cost sharing associated to informal long-term care: the case of Spain

Health Economics Review, 2020
Background A large part of the long-term care is provided by non-professional caregivers, generally without any monetary payment but a value economic of time invested.
Raúl Del Pozo-Rubio, Pablo Moya-Martínez, Marta Ortega-Ortega, Juan Oliva-Moreno   +3 more
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How staff characteristics influence residential care facility staff’s attitude toward person-centered care and informal care

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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