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| Characteristics of family/friend care networks of frail seniors | | Author(s) | Janet Fast, Norah Keating, Pam Otfinowski |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 23, no 1, Spring 2004 |
| Pages | pp 5-20 |
| Source | http://www.utpjournals.com |
| Keywords | Family care ; Friend care ; Neighbour care ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Social surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Policy makers and practitioners often assume that networks of family, friends and neighbours are able to provide sustained care to frail older people. In this paper, the authors use data from the 1996 Statistics Canada General Social Survey (GSS) to examine characteristics of the care networks of 1,104 older Canadians living with a long-term health problem. Care networks were found to vary considerably in size, relationship composition, gender composition, age composition and proximity, and these network characteristics were found to help explain variations in the types and amounts of care received. As a result, network characteristics that might place older people at risk of receiving inadequate care (including small size and higher proportions of non-kin, male and geographically distant members) were identified. These risk factors appear to be poorly reflected in most existing policy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040511202 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: P6:SX: P6:SY: F: 3F: 7S |
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