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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Informal Care"”.
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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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Helping at home and informal care: an examination of children's contribution to family life
… people's involvement in informal care causes concern, as such young people often carry a significant burden of both work and responsibility. This study seeks to identify the extent to which young people may be involved in different kinds of responsibilities and to assess …
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Formal and Informal Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Two Sites in Botswana
… service providers detail a complex landscape of care, which PLWHA utilise to get the help and assistance they need. A special emphasis is placed on the complex role of support groups, shown as a critical source of support which are currently under-researched in the literature. The study also …
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The social construction of gender in informal care: a discourse analytic approach to investigating community care practitioners' talk
The world of informal care has become a fruitful ground for investigation particularly in relation to establishing the contextual variables of the population of carers and the recipients of care. Research has highlighted that significantly more women than men are engaged in the informal delivery of …
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Individual and Geographic Predictors of Formal and Informal Care Patterns and Nursing Home Placement Risk among Rural Appalachian Elders
… 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 jeopardy of …
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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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Older people´s public health care and social services. Functional ability, health complaints, agreement in needs assessment and care satisfaction
… complaints of older people receiving municipal care in relation to housing and informal care, and factors associated with medical health care, municipal care and informal care. Further, the aim was to investigate agreement in needs assessments between personnel and older people and to …
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Economic Costs of Dementia in Low and Middle Income Countries
… The total cost was divided into cost of medical care, informal care and paid home care. The perspective of costs included both the public and private level. Cost of medical care at the private level was the out-of-pocket expenses. Health service use was valued according to country specific unit …
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Economic implications of intellectual disability in childhood : a trial-based evaluation
… on individuals, families, society and the healthcare system. This thesis explores the economic implications of an early behavioural intervention designed to lessen these impacts, Stepping Stones Triple P (SSTP). Innovative methods are used to contribute the body of knowledge that can guide …
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A study of preschool child care in middletown USA
… of the study were to determine who was taking care of three- and four-year-old children in Middletown USA, and to attempt to identify why parents of these children chose particular types of child care. A further purpose of the study was to supply data relative to the Muncie, Indiana, community …
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Essays on Health Economics
… impacts of government reimbursement of long-term care. We apply a regression discontinuity design using administrative data from South Korea to estimate the impact of subsidies for formal home and institutional care on informal care use and medical expenditures. We find that reimbursement leads to …
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BRFSS 2015-2017: Exploring the Burden of Caring For Others
Recognizing the growing public health need for informal care, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) commissioned an expert panel to develop a “caregiver module” for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the CDC’s annual health survey. The new module was piloted …
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Three Essays in Applied Economics
… past are rewarded by higher chances of receiving informal care later in life. To this purpose we use Italian data containing retrospective information about help with housing received from parents at the time of marriage. We show a positive association with their current provision of informal care …
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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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Factors that influence household health care utilization patterns in two districts of Zambia : a rural - urban comparative evaluation
… whether there are differential household health care utilization patterns between rural and urban areas in Zambia and what factors, if any, are responsible for such spatial variations. The factors considered in this study include: the gender of the household head, age of individual household …
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Case management for frail older people. Effects on healthcare utilisation, cost in relation to utility, and experiences of the intervention
… aim of this thesis was to investigate healthcare utilisation patterns and to explore the effects of a case management intervention for frail older people on healthcare utilisation and costs in relation to utility. A further aim was to explore the older people’s and case managers’ experiences …
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Three Essays on Health Economics
… impacts of government reimbursement of long-term care. We apply a regression discontinuity design using administrative data from South Korea to estimate the impact of subsidies for formal home and institutional care on informal care use and medical expenditures. These subsidies lead to increases …
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Smart home technology for aging
… the world requires some degree of formal and or informal care either due to the loss of function or failing health as a result of aging and most of them suffer from chronic disorders. The cost and burden of caring for elders is steadily increasing. This thesis focuses on providing the analysis of …
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Does the care provided by the informal caregivers affect their quality of life?
… was to investigate the effect of the role of informal care on the quality of life (QoL) of the caregiver whilst caring for an older person in the community. A hundred informal caregivers, aged between 25 and 89 years (mean 63.55 years; S.D 14.69) participated in this study. The sample was …
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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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