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The impact of female caregivers' employment status on patterns of formal and informal eldercare
Author(s)	Pamela Doty, Mary E Jackson, William Crown
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 38, no 3, June 1998
Pages	pp 331-341
Keywords	Family care ; Women as carers ; Employees ; Needs [elderly] ; Usage [services] ; United States of America.
Annotation	The increased rates of female labour force participation in the United States (US) may reduce the availability of informal help for older people, which in turn may result in an increased demand for formal services. This study used data from the 1989 National Long-Term Care Survey and its companion Informal Caregivers Survey to examine how the employment of women primary caregivers affects the hours of care received by disabled older care recipients. Multivariate analyses controlling for caregiver and care recipient characteristics indicate that when women caregivers were employed they provided significantly fewer hours of care personally; however, their care recipients also received significantly more hours of help from other sources. When women carers worked more than 17 hours per week, their care recipients received significantly fewer total weekly hours of care than would otherwise had been the case. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-980810413 A
Classmark	P6:SJ: P6:SH: WK: IK: QLD: 7T
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