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| Patterns and predictors of formal and informal care among elderly persons living in board and care homes | | Author(s) | Faith P Hopp |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 39, no 2, April 1999 |
| Pages | pp 167-176 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Domiciliary services ; Boarding out schemes ; Care homes ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | As board and care settings are increasingly seen as potential low cost sources of long term care for older people in the US, it is important to document the extent of formal and informal care and factors affecting such provision. In this study, formal helpers (e.g. service agencies and community organisations) were the most common providers of assistance, particularly for activities of daily living (ADLs) requiring close and continual proximity. Informal helpers were most likely to assist with instrumental ADLs (IADLs) such as shopping. The need for assistance with ADLs predicted the amount of formal ADL help received by residents, whereas both ADL need and the presence of mental illness predicted the amount of IADL help received from formal sources. Demographic factors such as gender and race, as well as frequency of family contact, predicted the amount of informal help with IADL tasks. White residents, women and those with frequent family contact were among those most likely to receive assistance from informal helpers. The results suggest the need to encourage provision of informal help as well as the need to ensure there are enough staff and other formal helpers to provide formal care in these settings (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990723209 A |
| Classmark | P6: N: KTB: KW: 7T |
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