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| A comparative analysis of disability measures and their relation to home health care use | | Author(s) | Carol L Jenkins, Sarah B Laditka |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 22, no 1, 2003 |
| Publisher | Haworth Press, 2003 |
| Pages | pp 21-38 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Indicators ; Home nursing ; Usage [services] ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The relationship between various definitions of disability and the use of home health care is examined. Using data from the 1993 Survey of Asset and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old (AHEAD), four measures of disability are constructed based on the concepts of difficulty and assistance. Home health care use was most likely when presence of both assistance and difficulty were included in the definition of disability. Regardless of the measure used, women, white people and unmarried people had higher likelihoods of using home health care than men, black people and married people respectively. If used as a service eligibility criterion, an inclusive measure of disability would result in a large number of potential service users. Efforts to control expenditures through the use of a narrower measure that requires the presence of assistance may disadvantage some subgroups of the older population. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030702206 A |
| Classmark | BN: CA: C4: 3RI: N4: QLD: 3F: 7T |
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