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Concurrent and long-term predictors of older adults' use of community-based long-term care services
— the Caregiver Health Effects Study | | Author(s) | Jamila Bookwala, Bozena Zdaniuk, Lynda Burton |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 16, no 1, February 2004 |
| Pages | pp 88-115 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Community care ; Long term ; Usage [services] ; Spouses as carers ; Physical disabilities ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors used two waves of the Caregiver Health Effects Study, an ancillary study of the US Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), and comprising a sample of 186 older people caring for a disabled spouse. Caregiver-related need variables as predictors of service use were of primary interest and included caregiving demands, caregiver mental and physical health, and mastery. Their contribution to service use was examined after controlling for known predictors of service use. At Time 1, more caregiver depressive symptoms predicted greater service use than at Time 2; more caregiver activity restriction and depressive symptoms predicted greater formal service use; and increases in caregiver activity restriction and depressive symptomatology over time predicted increases in service use. Caregiver-related need variables play a significant role in defining older people's usage patterns of community-based long-term care services. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040909205 A |
| Classmark | PA: 4Q: QLD: P6:SN: BN: 3J: 7T |
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