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| Carers: [research on carers in the United States] | | Author(s) | Saul Becker |
| Journal title | Research Matters International, special issue, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 19-22 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Family care ; Dementia ; Social policy ; Research Reviews ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Research shows that the needs and experiences of carers in the US are very similar to those of carers in the UK. This article reviews four recent US studies. First, an article on the economic value of informal caregiving (P Arno, C Levine and M Memmott, in Health Affairs, vol 18, no 2, March 1999), research for which was funded by the US Alzheimer's Association. The authors suggest that the "extraordinary" level and pervasiveness of caregiving represents a massive subsidy to the US chronic health care system. A study by the Alzheimer's Association and National Alliance of Caregiving, "Who cares? Families caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease", surveyed some 1,500 carers. Two articles by Carol Levine draw on her research on carers' experiences of the US health system. Her findings are similar to those of Melanie Henwood's UK study, "Ignored and invisible? carers' experience of the NHS" (1998). There is a growing recognition among politicians and policy makers in the UK and US that supporting carers makes sense on moral, social and economic grounds. How this is done needs to take into account the totality of carers' needs. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990824261 A |
| Classmark | P6: P6:SJ: EA: TM2: 3A:6KC: 7T |
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