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Health services use by older people with disabilities in Spain
— do formal and informal care matter? | | Author(s) | Jesús Rogero-García, María-Eugenia Prieto-Flores, Mark W Rosenberg |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 28, part 7, October 2008 |
| Pages | pp 959-978 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ASO |
| Keywords | Health services ; Admission [hospitals] ; Accident & emergency depts ; General practice ; Usage [services] ; Physical disabilities ; Informal care ; Social surveys ; Spain. |
| Annotation | As people grow older in late life, their need for help with the activities of daily living increases. In Spain, those who need such help constitute about 20% of the population aged 65+. Support may be from formal care, informal care or both, and the type has different consequences for care receivers and their social networks. This paper examines the relationship between informal and formal care and the use of health services among older people in Spain. Using a sample of 1,148 respondents aged 65+ from the Spanish National Health Survey of 2003, the authors analysed the association between the sources of care (formal, informal, both or no care) and the frequency of three types of health-care utilisation : hospitalisation, emergency services and medical consultations. After controlling for sex, age, level of difficulty in the activities of daily living, self-perceived health status and social class, it was found that older people with disabilities who received neither informal nor formal care were more likely to consult physicians than those who received informal care, but that there were no significant relationships between the type of care and health services use. The findings provide new information about the consequences of the different types of care of older people with disabilities, and suggest specifically that informal care substitutes for some tasks usually done by health professionals. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080915203 A |
| Classmark | L: LD:QKH: LD6: L5: QLD: BN: P6: 3F: 76S |
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