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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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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 +2 more
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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 +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 +5 more
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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 +4 more
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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 +7 more
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The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Informal and Formal Care Disruption and Older Adults’ Psychological Distress: Evidence from the Household Longitudinal Study-Understanding Society [PDF]
, 2021 This paper exploits individual-level data from the U.K. Household Longitudinal Study (U.K.HLS), Understanding Society, to investigate how formal and informal caregiving disruptions, due to the U.K.
Martini, Gianmaria, Sturaro, Caterina
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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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