LONG-DISTANCE CAREGIVERS’ INFORMAL CARE NETWORKS

Condition of informal caregivers in long-term care of people with dementi.

INTRODUCTION Caregivers of demented relatives devote their time and attention in order to help the beloved members of the family. Those who are informal caregivers require support in order to avoid being overburdened. Many such caregivers may suffer from chronic health problems, for instance, depression. OBJECTIVE The aim was to assess the factors of depression in caregivers, and to discover ...

[Long-term outcomes of stroke rehabilitation: patients and informal caregivers].

Running head: INTEGRATED CARE AND INFORMAL CAREGIVERS The Effects of an Integrated Care Intervention for the Frail Elderly on Informal Caregivers: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Formal Long-Term Care Subsidies, Informal Care, and Medical Expenditures∗

This paper provides empirical evidence on the impacts of government reimbursement of longterm 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 in formal long-term care utilization, even accounting f...

Informal dementia care: Consequences for caregivers' health and health care use in 8 European countries.

BACKGROUND Informal (dementia) care has economic consequences throughout the health care system. Whilst the health and wellbeing of the care recipient might improve, the health of the caregiver might also change, typically for the worse. Therefore, this analysis aims to examine the association between caregiving intensity and caregivers' health and health care utilization. DATA AND METHODS Th...