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Self, informal and formal care — partnerships in community-based and residential long term care settings
Author(s)	Margaret J Penning, Norah C Keating
Journal title	Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 19, supplement 1, Summer 2000
Pages	pp 75-100
Keywords	Self care capacity ; Informal care ; Services ; Living in the community ; Care homes ; Coordination ; Literature reviews ; Canada.
Annotation	This paper reviews what research findings tell us regarding the relationships between self-care, informal care and formal care for older people coping with chronic illnesses and disabilities, and living in the community or in residential care settings. How are these sources of care related? Are they parallel and competing forms of care that tend to be used to replace or substitute for one another? Alternatively, are they complementary, or are they also used to supplement one another? Findings suggest that formal services are not used to displace or substitute for informal care, rather they tend to be used to supplement and complement the care provided by the informal network. The findings also point to a need to refocus attention away from the creation of partnerships and protecting against unnecessary substitution, towards broader concerns with supporting partnerships that already exist. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001113218 A
Classmark	CA: P6: I: K4: KW: QAJ: 64A: 7S
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