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| Comparative costs of home care and residential care | | Author(s) | Neena L Chappell, Betty Havens, Marcus J Hollander |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 44, no 3, June 2004 |
| Pages | pp 389-400 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Domiciliary services ; Living in the community ; Care homes ; Cost effectiveness ; Comparison ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Canadian research examining the cost effectiveness of home care for older people as a substitute for long-term institutional services is reported. Two Canadian cities were included in the research: Victoria, British Columbia, and Winnipeg, Manitoba. The research computes the costs of formal care and informal care in both settings, and ensures comparable groups clients in both settings by comparing individuals at the same level of care. The results reveal that costs were significantly lower for community clients than facility clients, regardless of whether costs only to the government were taken into account. When informal caregiver time is valued at either minimum wage or replacement wage, there was a substantial jump in the average annual costs to both community and facility clients relative to when informal caregiver time was valued at zero. Nevertheless, the results reveal that home care is significantly less costly than residential care, even when informal caregiver time is valued at replacement wage. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040816203 A |
| Classmark | P6: N: K4: KW: WEC: 48: 7S |
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