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Caregiving, Formal & Informal

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Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Informal and Formal Caregiving among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders Living in the Community - Executive Summary

Marc A. Cohen, Ph.D. Vice President, LifePlans, Inc. President, Center for Health and Long-Term Care Research Maurice Weinrobe, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Clark University Jessica Miller, M.S.

Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Informal and Formal Caregiving Among Privately Insured and Noprivately Insured Disabled Elders Living in the Community

Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Informal and Formal Caregiving among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders Living in the Community

Marc A. Cohen, Ph.D. Vice President, LifePlans, Inc. President, Center for Health and Long-Term Care Research Maurice Weinrobe, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Clark University

Informal Caregivers of Disabled Elders with Long-Term Care Insurance

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A Descriptive Analysis of Patterns of Informal and Formal Caregiving among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders Living in the Community

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Informal Caregiving: Compassion in Action

This booklet, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is about informal caregiving — unpaid care given voluntarily to ill or disabled persons by their families and friends. Informal caregiving by families and friends is the backbone of America's long-term care system.

Caring for Frail Elderly People: Policies in Evolution

In Chapter 14 (United States), the long development of long-term care policy is described, giving particular emphasis to the functioning of the main programs introduced in the 1960s, and their progressive modification up to the 1990s. Finally, an outline is given of the main reform debates of the late 1980s and 1990s. [38 PDF pages]

Eldercare: The Impact of Family Caregivers' Employment on Formal and Informal Helper Hours

The 1989 National Long Term Care Survey is the first nationally representative survey to collect data on weekly hours of assistance received by ADL and/or IADL disabled elders living in the community by individual caregivers, both formal and informal.

Factors Associated with Ending Caregiving Among Informal Caregivers to the Functionally and Cognitively Impaired Elderly Population

This study investigated factors associated with the decisions of principal informal caregivers of the activity of daily living (ADL) dependent elderly living in the community to end caregiving. Data were from the 1982 National Long-Term Care Survey (NLTCS), the 1982 Informal Caregiver Survey and 1984 NLTCS Longitudinal Follow-up.

Overwhelming Odds: Caregiving and the Risk of Institutionalization - Executive Summary

Sandra Newman, Michelle Rice and Raymond Struyk The Urban Institute This report was prepared under contract between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and the Urban Institute.