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Life on the edge
— patterns of formal and informal help to older adults in the United States and Sweden | | Author(s) | Adam Davey, Elia E Femia, Steven H Zarit |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 5, September 2005 |
| Pages | pp S281-S288 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Services ; Informal care ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Cross sectional surveys ; Comparison ; Sweden ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Assistance received by individuals in the US and Sweden was compared with characteristics associated with low, moderate or high risk of nursing home admission after one year in the US. This study used longitudinal national data from 4579 participants aged 75+ in the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) for 1992 and 1993, and cross-sectional data from 1379 individuals aged 75+ from the 1994 Swedish Ageing at Home (AH) national survey. A logistic regression equation was developed using US data to identify individuals with three levels (low, moderate or high) of predicted 1-year nursing home admission risk. Groups with the same characteristics were identified in the Swedish sample and compared on formal and informal assistance received. Formal service usage was higher in the Swedish sample, whereas informal service use is lower overall. Individuals with characteristics associated with high risk of admission to nursing home received more formal and less informal assistance in Sweden compared to the US. Differences suggest that formal services supplement informal support in the US, and that formal and informal services are complementary in Sweden. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070904222 A |
| Classmark | I: P6: LHB:QKH: 3KB: 48: 76P: 7T |
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