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| Social networks, ethnicity and public home-care utilisation | | Author(s) | Howard Litwin |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 24, part 6, November 2004 |
| Pages | pp 921-939 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/ |
| Keywords | Arab ; Jewish ; Immigrants ; Informal care ; Domiciliary services ; Usage [services] ; Social surveys ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Data from a 1997 Israeli national survey on the background characteristics and functional health of 3,403 people aged 60+ was used to ascertain usage of publicly-financed personal care or home-making services. About 15% of the study population made use of such home care. Six informal support network constellations were identified by applying cluster analysis to key criterion variables that reflect the intra-personal milieu. These network types were community clan, family-focused, diverse, friend-focused, neighbour-focused, and restricted networks. Binary logistic regression revealed that use of formal home-care services was significantly associated with a respondent's age, gender, functional level and informal support network type. No association was found between home-care use and a respondent's ethnicity (Arab, Jew or new Russian immigrant), income or education. Publicly-financed formal care services were used more frequently by older-old people, women, functionally impaired individuals and people embedded in neighbour-focused or restricted networks (and to a lesser degree, in diverse and friend-focused networks). Neighbour-focused and restricted network types were characterised by fewer informal support resources at their disposal than the other types. Thus, formal home care was sought more often where informal sources of support had less capacity to provide ongoing informal care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041213005 A |
| Classmark | TKR: TKS: TJ: P6: N: QLD: 3F: 7H6 |
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