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Formal and informal care for people with dementia — factors associated with service receipt
Author(s)	J Schneider, A Hallam, J Murray
Journal title	Aging & Mental Health, vol 6, no 3, August 2002
Pages	pp 255-265
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Dementia ; Informal care ; Usage [services] ; Lewisham ; Southwark ; Croydon.
Annotation	Details of service receipt by 132 people diagnosed with dementia and their carers were collected in the south London Boroughs of Lewisham, Southwark and Croydon, a geographical area served by several health and social care providers. The data collected included the Caregiver Activity Survey, which details informal care given. This paper reports on the formal and informal care services received by people with dementia at entry to the study. The amount of time spent on specific caring tasks by all informal carers of people with dementia averaged 7 hours per week, but was significantly higher for co-resident carers, even when controlling for the level of dependency of the person cared for. The odds ratios of receipt of formal services are given, according to where people were living: in the community or residential care, with co-residential carers or alone. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020919211 A
Classmark	EA: P6: QLD: 82LO: 82LT: 82L9
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