Formal and informal care for disabled elderly living in the community: an appraisal of French care composition and costs

Paraponaris, Alain; Davin, Bérengère; Verger, Pierre

doi:10.1007/s10198-011-0305-3

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“…For the case of Spain Jiménez-Martín and Prieto (2012) find that the choice of the LTC type crucially depends on age, gender, and the marital status of the care dependent person but also on the availability of FC services. In line with the latter Paraponaris et al (2012) and Bakx et al (2015) conclude that low socioeconomic status increases difficulties in accessing FC. While finding a complementary relation more often than a substitutive relation between IC and FC, Geerts and Van den Bosch (2012) conclude that among Scandinavian countries and continental European countries with needs-based entitlements, the transition to FC strongly depends on the availability of IC.…”

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Informal, Formal, or Both? Assessing the Drivers of Home Care Utilization in Austria Using a Simultaneous Decision Framework

2017

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Understanding the relation between different types of long-term care and the determinants of individual choice of long-term care types is fundamental for efficient policy making in times of ageing societies. However, empirical research on this issue has revealed both national and methodological factors as crucial for the policy conclusions drawn. Thus, the purpose of the present paper is twofold: First, at least to our knowledge, it is the first comprehensive assessment of this kind for Austria. Second, it extends the scarce literature explicitly focusing on the combined use of informal and formal care in addition to the exclusive use of these services based on an econometric framework accounting for the simultaneity and interdependencies in these types of long-term care. Our results provide strong evidence for a taskspecific and complementary relation of formal and informal home care in Austria, with the health status and functional limitations as the main determinants of individual choice. AbstractUnderstanding the relation between different types of long-term care (LTC) and the determinants of individual choice of LTC types is fundamental for efficient policy making in times of aging societies. However, empirical research on this issue has revealed both national and methodological factors as crucial for the policy conclusions drawn. Thus, the purpose of the present paper is twofold: First, at least to our knowledge, it is the first comprehensive assessment of this kind for Austria. Second, it extends the scarce literature explicitly focusing on the combined use of informal and formal care in addition to the exclusive use of these services based on an econometric framework accounting for the simultaneity and interdependencies in these types of LTC. Our results provide strong evidence for a task-specific and complementary relation of formal and informal home care in Austria, with the health status and functional limitations as the main determinants of individual choice.

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“…Geerts and Van den Bosch (2012) estimate hierarchical logistic regression models while others chose multinomial probit (Paraponaris et al, 2012;Bakx et al, 2015) or multinomial logit models. Suanet et al (2012) even estimated separate (binary) logit models for informal care, formal care and mixed care utilization.…”

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Informal, Formal, or Both? Assessing the Drivers of Home Care Utilization in Austria Using a Simultaneous Decision Framework

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“…diverse range of home care provision in Europe, Jamieson (1991) draws three principal categories: nursing care, undertaken by nursing professionals (giving injections, measuring blood pressure and so on); personal care (daily tasks such as washing and dressing); and home-making (tasks such as cleaning and cooking). In France, elderly care services provide all three types of assistance: home care provided by formal service providers is usually supplemented by informal care provided by family members and neighbours (Paraponaris et al 2012).…”

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“…A second, and related, biographical particularity is the hostel residents' lack of family entourage, this being the customary source of support and information for senior citizens in France (Paraponaris et al 2012). "Normally it's older people who apply for help, or their families, but with us [i.e., at Sonacotra-Adoma] that doesn't happen.…”

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“…Accepting outside aid to accomplish daily tasks is not easy for anyone, regardless of their age, gender or ethnicity. Equally, surveys in France and elsewhere show that in general older people experiencing loss of autonomy are much more likely to receive care from informal family sources than from outside professional services (Paraponaris et al 2012). Furthermore, in France the probability of receiving informal care from one's spouse is higher for men than for women; and regardless of the care receiver's gender, receiving informal care from one's children is also higher if one has daughters rather than sons (ibid).…”

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Loss of Autonomy, Dying and the Penultimate Voyage

Hunter

2018

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Health Information Technology and Caregiver Interaction: Building Healthy Ecosystems

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Marco

2018

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This qualitative study explores the widely recognized role of the informal caregivers (ICGs) as key co-producers in the delivery of effective and sustainable healthcare systems. The central argument is that to enhance the quality of care in non-clinical settings and the healthcare ecosystem as a whole, developers of Health Information Technology (HIT) need to harness the knowledge and experiences of the ICGs to better align their products to practice. The paper has two aims: to improve the understandability of informal caregivers' role in non-traditional healthcare settings, and to identify and formulate valuable guidelines for the development of "fit for use" HIT solutions that acknowledge the needs of the ICGs.Health Information Technology is the application of information technology to health and healthcare. The fact that Health Information Technology ('HIT') brings together the management and computerization of health information with a wide range of stakeholders means it has far-reaching effects on the delivery and consumption of healthcare and health-related services [1: iv]. In this paper, HIT is defined as the use of information and communication technology (ICT) by formal (i.e., professional) and informal caregivers to deliver healthcare services in non-traditional settings. Basically, caregivers would combine the use of social media, collaborative platforms, online portals, bedside terminals, assistive technologies, handhelds, electronics, and electronic medical records into "effective means of accessing, communicating and storing information to improve patient care and population health, and reduce healthcare expenditures" [2: 476, 3, 4]. The sustained care of informal caregivers (ICGs) could enable people with chronic diseases, e.g., cancer [5], AIDS [6], Alzheimer's [7], stroke [8], Severe Multiple Sclerosis [9], and certainly the aging [10], to be assisted by family members either at the hospital or at home [11]. Nevertheless, to provide an effective care package, healthcare providers who enlist informal caregivers as active patient care partners [12] need to pay careful attention to the interactions between the ICGs, the healthcare professionals and the patients [13]. HIT has done much to make the informal caregivers part of healthcare service delivery ecosystems [14] but the evidence so far suggests that, overall, it is not enough to improve outcomes across the care continuum [2,15]. Prior studies have demonstrated significant advances in knowledge but uncertain improvements in skills [16] -in particular, in the training of disease management planning. The attitude of the healthcare provider to the ICG as a user of HIT is often the result of a mutual misunderstanding of needs [17,18]. On the other hand, the perception of the ICGs and care recipients is that they are at the mercy of the healthcare professionals.  MotivationThe difference between an informal caregiver (or family carer or caregiver, informal carer or care provider or caregiver) and a healthcare professional (e.g. clinical staff, nur...

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Formal and informal care for disabled elderly living in the community: an appraisal of French care composition and costs

Cited by 79 publications

References 56 publications

Informal, Formal, or Both? Assessing the Drivers of Home Care Utilization in Austria Using a Simultaneous Decision Framework

Informal, Formal, or Both? Assessing the Drivers of Home Care Utilization in Austria Using a Simultaneous Decision Framework

Loss of Autonomy, Dying and the Penultimate Voyage

Health Information Technology and Caregiver Interaction: Building Healthy Ecosystems

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