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Use of home care services effectively reduces feelings of burden among family caregivers of disabled elderly in Japan
— preliminary results | | Author(s) | Keigo Kumamoto, Yumiko Arai, Steven H Zarit |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 21, no 2, February 2006 |
| Pages | pp 163-170 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Home care services ; Usage [services] ; Family care ; Stress ; Dementia ; Social surveys ; Japan. |
| Annotation | There is a paucity of observational studies of the impact of home care services on burden or other aspects of the caregiver's experience. This study examined whether the use of care services was associated with lower feelings of burden among 82 pairs of people with dementia and their principal family caregivers in a town in the north of Japan. After controlling for the effects of severity of impairments, the use of home care services was found to be associated with lower feelings of burden, suggesting that such care services provided under long-term care (LTC) insurance have been successful in reducing burden. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060928205 A |
| Classmark | NH: QLD: P6:SJ: QNH: EA: 3F: 7DT |
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