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Formal and informal care for people with dementia
 — variations in costs over time
Author(s)Justine Scheneider, Angela Hallam, M Kamrul Islam
Journal titleAgeing and Society, vol 23, part 3, May 2003
Pagespp 303-326
KeywordsDementia ; Informal care ; Services ; Costs [care] ; Longitudinal surveys.
AnnotationThe services used by people with dementia and their carers were measured at three time points over 17 months. This analysis is unusual in that both informal care and formal inputs were costed. The costs estimates for informal inputs developed here may be applied to other data sets. Two hypotheses to explain the inter-relationship between informal and formal care inputs, substitution and supplementation, were compared in analysing the data. This paper explores the variations in costs according to the living arrangements of the people with dementia, by level of dependency and over time, and finds systematic differences. (KJ/RH).
Accession NumberCPA-030530203 A
ClassmarkEA: P6: I: QDC: 3J

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