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Older people - recipients but also providers of informal care
— an analysis among community samples in the Republic Ireland and Northern Ireland | | Author(s) | Hannah M McGee, Gerard Molloy, Ann O'Hanlon |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 16, no 5, September 2008 |
| Pages | pp 548-553 |
| Source | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Services ; Usage [services] ; Cross sectional surveys ; Ireland ; Northern Ireland. |
| Annotation | Data on both the provision and receipt of informal care among populations of older people are limited. Patterns of informal care provided and received by older people in the Republic of Ireland (RoI) and Northern Ireland (NI) were evaluated in a cross-sectional community-based population survey. 2033 randomly selected older people aged 65+ (mean age 74.1, 43% men, 68% response rate) provided information on provision and receipt of care. 251/2033 (12%) identified themselves as informal caregivers (8% RoI, 17% NI). Caregivers were more likely to be women, married, and have less education and have less functional impairment. 1033/2033 (49%) reported receiving some form of care in the past year. Care recipients were more likely to be older, married, have more functional impairment, and poorer self-rated health. Receiving regular informal care (help at least once a week) from a non-resident relative was the most common form of help received (578/2033; 27% RoI and 30% NI). 102/2033 (5%) reported both providing and receiving care. Levels of informal care provided by community-dwelling older people were notably higher than reported in single-item national census questions. The balance of formal and informal health and social care will become increasingly important as populations age. It is essential, therefore, to evaluate factors facilitating or impeding informal care delivery. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081008211 A |
| Classmark | P6: I: QLD: 3KB: 763: 9Y |
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