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| Longitudinal changes in the amount of informal care among publicly paid home care recipients | | Author(s) | Lydia W Li |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 45, no 4, August 2005 |
| Pages | pp 465-473 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Home care services ; Living in the community ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Policy-makers in the US fear that family caregivers will withdraw service when publicly paid home care is available. To examine this possibility, hierarchical linear models were estimated, using data from 12 repeated observations over a 3-year period of 888 older people, participants in Michigan's Home and Community-Based Medicaid Waiver Program. The amount of informal care declined in the beginning period when publicly paid home care was received, and then it stabilised. Changes in activities and instrumental activities of daily living (ADLs and IADLs) and caregiver residence predicted changes in the amount. The older people's living arrangements and age predicted different patterns of change over time. Neither formal service amount nor its change significantly predicted the amount of informal care. Informal caregivers do not relinquish caregiving when publicly paid home care is available. Expanding community-based long-term care is a means of fostering partnerships between formal and informal caregivers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070904213 A |
| Classmark | P6: NH: K4: 3J: 7T |
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