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| Older adults' reports of formal care hours and administrative records | | Author(s) | Steven M Albert, Andrea B Brassard, Bridget Simone |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 44, no 2, April 2004 |
| Pages | pp 186-192 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Home care services ; Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Home nursing ; Usage [services] ; Claims [services] ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Personal assistance care is a Medicaid benefit in New York, but few data are available on its prevalence and contribution to home care. The authors examined these issues in a New York City sample by assessing older people's reports of weekly home care and Medicaid billing records. Of respondents in the sample, 10.3% (185 of 1,902 alive in 1996) had Medicaid claims for personal assistance care. The mean was 46.1 hours per week for administrative claims. In this urban, low income and mostly minority ethnic sample, older people's reports of weekly formal care hours were valid when matched against administrative records. Respondents' reports of formal care hours were valid, even in complex care situations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040726206 A |
| Classmark | NH: N3: N4: QLD: QLT: 3F: 7T |
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