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The amount of informal and formal care among non-demented and demented elderly persons
— results from a Swedish population-based study | | Author(s) | G Nordberg, E von Strauss, I Kareholt |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 20, no 9, September 2005 |
| Pages | pp 862-871 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Domiciliary services ; Dementia ; Cognitive processes ; Rural areas ; Comparison ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | Subjects in this study were all 740 inhabitants aged 75+ of a rural community participating in the Kungshölmen-Nordanstig Project in Sweden. They were clinically examined by physicians and interviewed by nurses. Dementia severity was measured according to the Washington University Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR). Informal and formal care was examined with the RUD (Resources Utilisation in Dementia) instrument. The amount of informal care was much greater than formal care and also greater among demented than non-demented. There was a relationship between severity of the cognitive decline and the amount of informal care, while this pattern was weaker regarding formal care. Tobit regression analyses showed a clear association between the number of hours of informal care and formal care and cognitive decline, although this pattern was much stronger for informal than formal care. Informal care substitutes rather than compliments formal care, and highlights the importance of future studies in order to truly estimate the amount of informal and formal care and the interaction between them. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051108215 A |
| Classmark | P6: N: EA: DA: RL: 48: 76P |
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