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| Individual determinants of task division in older adults' mixed care networks | | Author(s) | Marianne Jacobs, Marjolein I Broese van Groenou, Alice H de Boer |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 22, no 1, January 2014 |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell, January 2014 |
| Pages | pp 57-66 |
| Source | wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/hsc |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Home care services ; Social surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | Older adults in need of long-term care often receive help from both informal and formal caregivers. The division of tasks between these different types of caregivers may vary within such mixed care networks. Traditional models of task division suggest that formal and informal caregivers may either supplement each other or specialise in the care activities performed. This study explores division of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) andI Instrumental ADL (IADLs) between informal and formal caregivers of older people in the Netherlands, using data collected in 2007 on 458 mixed care situations. Four types of task divisions of informal and formal care are distinguished: the complementation model (neither ADL nor IADL tasks shared, 14%); the supplementation model (both ADL and IADL tasks shared, 39%); and informal and formal specialisation (one type of task shared, one type of task not shared, 27% and 20% respectively). Analyses show that the intensity of care provision, the informal caregivers' motives and the presence of privately paid help _ more than care receiver's health _ are related to type of task division with formal care. For example, when the informal caregiver provides more hours of help and out of a strong personal bond, the likelihood of informal specialisation increases, whereas the likelihood of formal specialisation decreases. When privately paid help is present, the complementation model is more likely, whereas the supplementation model is less likely to be found. Results are discussed regarding the differential consequences for co-ordination and co-operation in mixed care networks. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150522235 A |
| Classmark | P6: NH: 3F: 76H |
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