Trade-off between formal and informal care in Spain [PDF]
The remarkable growth of older population has moved long term care to the front ranks of the social policy agenda. Understanding the factors that determine the type and amount of formal care is important for predicting use in the future and developing ...
Cristina Vilaplana Prieto +1 more
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Projections of use and supply of long-term care in Europe: Policy implications. ENEPRI Policy Brief No. 12, 12 April 2012 [PDF]
, 2012 Projections of use and supply of formal and informal care carried out in Work Package 6 of the ANCIEN project show that if current patterns of care use and supply prevail, supply of care is likely to fall behind demand.
Geerts, Joanna, Willemé, Peter
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Exploring informal caregivers' health needs from a capability perspective : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2015 Despite more than forty years of informal caregiving research, the health needs of informal caregivers continue to generate considerable scrutiny. Most commonly, caregiving is portrayed as burdensome and a health risk, although positive and ambivalent ...
Horrell, Barbara Mary
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Informal carers' health-related quality of life and patient experience in primary care: evidence from 195,364 carers in England responding to a national survey. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: We aim to describe the health-related quality of life of informal carers and their experiences of primary care. METHODS: Responses from the 2011-12 English General Practice Patient Survey, including 195,364 informal carers, were analysed ...
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The Impact of Demographic Change, Co-morbidity and European Care Policies on the Choice of Care Arrangement [PDF]
Recent literature on long-term care looks at the substitutability of informal and professional home-based care arrangements. Other factors that influence the utilization of informal care instead of formal care have been ignored in conditional analyses so
Annika Meng
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Informal Caregiving for Diabetes and Diabetic Complications Among Elderly Americans [PDF]
Objectives: Little is known regarding the amount of time spent by unpaid caregivers providing help to elderly individuals for disabilities associated with diabetes mellitus (DM).
Caroline S. Blaum +9 more
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Cognitive impairment in older people: its implications for future demand for services and costs [PDF]
, 2003 This study aimed to make projections, for the next 30 years, of future numbers of older people with cognitive impairment, their demand for long-term care services and the future costs of their care under a range of specified assumptions.
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Working Paper 07-10 - The Belgian long-term care system [PDF]
This report describes the organization of the Belgian long‐term care system. It can be characterized as a mixed system with extensive public care provision and substantial support from informal care mainly within the family.
Peter Willemé
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Informal care in the Netherlands. A situational sketch of informal caregivers reached via Informal Care Centres [PDF]
, 2002 Informal care is a very important form of care. There are approximately 1.5 million informal caregivers in the Netherlands. Despite this large number, little is known about those providing this important service.
Berg, B. (Bernard) van den +3 more
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The Supply of Childcare in Britain: Do Mothers Queue for Childcare? [PDF]
This paper presents a model of partial observability applied to the childcare market in Britain. We simultaneously estimate the demand and use and calculate the excess demand for childcare.
Arnaud Chevalier, Viitanen, Tarja K
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