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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Formal Care"”.
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Potentially Traumatic Event Experiences and Health Care Service Use in Liberia
… events (PTE) is associated with increased health care service use. Information on patterns of health care use and expectations by this group of individuals can be useful for providing patient-centric care and improving health system accountability and responsiveness. Despite the necessity of this …
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Individual and Geographic Predictors of Formal and Informal Care Patterns and Nursing Home Placement Risk among Rural Appalachian Elders
… and geographic factors influence the mix of formal and informal services utilized by older adults and their families along the continuum of care. This study focuses on a specific rural population in the United States - Central and South Central Appalachia, which experiences the triple …
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The Legal Treatment of Informal Caregivers of the Elderly in Canada and Australia: The Importance of Recognizing Relations in Creating Reforms
… policy implications of the legal treatment of caregivers of the elderly in Canada and Australia and how this can inform law and policy reforms in Canada. Legislation and policy on the formal care system and supports for informal caregivers of the elderly in Canada and Australia are described, …
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Family ties and care for aged parents at home
… the meaning of their responsibility to care for the parent, how they learned to be responsible to family members, and what experiences inside and outside the family shaped their sense of responsibility. They expressed their views about how family caregiving labor should be divided …
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Three essays on Informal Care, Health, and Education
… essays. In Chapter 2, I analyze how providing informal care to an elderly parent affects the caregiver's labour market outcomes, cognitive ability, and health; and study the influence of the institutional background on the caregiving decision and the effects of caregiving. My results show that …
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GUARANTEE OF CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF AN EFFECTIVE FAMILY STRENGTHENING SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
… 10,887 children resided in state-run residential care institutions in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Out of them, more than 80 percent were children whose parents were alive and known to the authorities, but who have been deprived of parental rights. Institutionalization negatively impacts children's …
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Family Involvement Within Assisted Living: Care-Receivers' and Caregivers' Roles and Relationships
<p>Family systems providing informal care and support to their aging relatives, who were residing in assisted living systems and receiving formal care were central to this study. A broader understanding of family involvement, with respect to exploring both care-receiver and caregiver roles and …
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Dying in the margins : understanding the needs and capacities of a lower socioeconomic population for end of life care
Increased disease burden and unmet health care needs are defining features of lower socioeconomic groups, both in Australia and internationally. In Australia, there is limited understanding of the needs of lower socioeconomic groups for end of life care. At the end-of-life, health disparities are …
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Unpacking the links between household income and child academic achievement in Australia through the development of the PICAA microsimulation systems model
… this study has identified a likely rise in formal care costs in real terms within the Australian context over the past twenty years. This increase has made formal care as much as three times more expensive in real terms, after accounting for inflation and allowing for increases in real wages …
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Culture and Family Life: Three Studies on Family and Marriage Relationships across Cultures
… in older adults' preference for family elder care. I find that older adults from countries with more traditional values that emphasize the importance of a strong parent-child tie are more likely to prefer family care rather than formal care than those from more secular-rational countries with …
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The Long-Term Costs of Caring: How Caring for an Aging Parent Impacts Wealth Trajectories of Caregivers
<p>Long-term care in the U.S. is a growing concern as our aging population exerts pressure on formal and informal care systems. Public expenditures on formal care are increasing rapidly, even as reliance on informal caregivers expands. Recent policy innovations are shifting Medicaid and Medicare …
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The role of the National Health insurance scheme in shaping equity of access to healthcare in Ghana
… in Ghana impacts on equity of access to healthcare in Tamale District of northern Ghana. Using mainly a qualitative approach, the thesis specifically examined whether the NHIS promotes equity in health insurance coverage and whether insured members are able to access healthcare equitably. …
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Impact of National Health Insurance on health seeking behavior in the Kassena-Nankana district of Northern Ghana
… aim of mobilizing additional funds for health care, promoting equal access to reasonable health care, pool health risks, prevent impoverishment, and improve the efficiency and quality of health care. The success of the NHIS in improving access to health care since its implementation and the …
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An unfamiliar face, an unfamiliar environment: Investigating educators’ understanding of their attachment relationships with infants and toddlers in Early Childhood Education and Care settings
… and with families increasingly utilising formal care for their infants and toddlers, educators are in a prime position to use attachment theory to inform their practices within education and care (ECEC) settings. The aims of this study were to investigate educators’ knowledge and …
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Changes in Formal-Informal Caregiving in Elderly Stroke Survivors
… and longitudinal differences in the caregiving source among stroke survivors (n=477) over a six-year period. This study involves a secondary analysis of a longitudinal panel study focusing upon three waves of interview data from the HAS/AHEAD study spanning 1998 through 2002. …
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Three Essays on the Supply of Long-Term Care Services to the Elderly in the U.S.
… examines the implications of supplying long-term care (LTC) services to the elderly in the United States. The first two essays investigate private costs of LTC assistance borne by adult children of elderly parents. In contrast, the third essay focuses on the cost of publicly-provided, formal LTC …