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| Predicting transitions in the use of informal and professional care by older adults | | Author(s) | Sandra W Geerlings, Anne Margriet Pot, Jos W R Twisk |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 25, part 1, January 2005 |
| Pages | pp 111-130 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/ |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Transitional phase ; Services ; Domiciliary services ; Longitudinal surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | To prepare the care system for a rising population of older people, it is important to understand what factors predict the use of care. This paper reports a study of transitions in the use of informal and professional care using Amderson-Newman models of the predictive predisposing, enabling and need factors. The study draws on the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) data on the use of care and contextual factors. Data were collected at 3-yearly intervals from a random, sex- and age-stratified, population-based sample of adults aged 55-85. In summary, the findings for those who initially did not receive care were that almost one-third received some kind of care three years later, most of which was provided by informal caregivers. Need factors were important predictors of most transitions to care, and predisposing and enabling factors, such as age, partner status and income, also played a role. On the relationships between informal and professional care, evidence was found for both "compensatory processes", i.e. informal care substitutes for professional care, and "bridging processes", i.e. informal care facilitates professional care and its supply, the significant impact of predisposing and enabling factors offers opportunities for interpretation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050126206 A |
| Classmark | P6: 4MT: I: N: 3J: 76H |
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