Home health care and the housing and living arrangements of the elderly

Long-term care insurance, informal care, and medical expenditures

“…Using this source of variation, McKnight (2006) finds resulting reductions in home care utilization that were not offset by increases in institutional care or other medical care. Using the same source of variation, Orsini (2010) and Engelhardt and Greenhalgh-Stanley (2010) find reductions in independent living, and Golberstein et al (2009) find increases in the probability of the use of informal caregiving.…”

Public transfers and living alone among the elderly

“…Thirdly, the analysis of this paper is restricted to unmarried elders. Evidence in the U.S. suggests that unmarried elders' living arrangements are more responsive to an increase in income (Engelhardt and Greenhalgh-Stanley 2010;Engelhardt, Gruber, and Perry 2005). How the BOAP benefits affect married elders' living arrangements and how the effect compares to the estimates in this article remain interesting questions.…”

“…Using an instrumental variable approach, Engelhardt, Gruber, and Perry (2005) estimated the elasticity of the proportion of elders in coresidence with nonelderly household members, with respect to Social Security benefits, as -1.4 for the unmarried and -0.4 for the married. Engelhardt and Greenhalgh-Stanley (2010) found that Medicare home health care benefits significantly decreased extended living among unmarried elders with an estimated elasticity of -0.9.…”

“…A few studies from the U.S. show that such support increases elders' living alone owing to their preference for privacy (Costa 1997(Costa , 1999McGarry and Schoeni 2000;Engelhardt, Gruber, and Perry 2005;Engelhardt and Greenhalgh-Stanley 2010). By contrast, the expansion of public pensions in South Africa was estimated to have no significant impact (Jensen 2003;Edmonds, Mammen, and Miller 2005).…”

Dissatisfaction With Dwelling Environments in an Aging Society: An Empirical Analysis of the Kanto Area in Japan

“…Morrow‐Jones and Wenning () also considered this type of moving, calling it the “housing ladder.” Other researchers have analyzed moving from a lifecycle point of view, for example, Clark and Huang (), Clark and Onaka (), Kendig (), Nelson (), and Quigley (). Studies on moving and health condition or diseases of the elderly could be regarded as this type of approach and have been conducted by Clark and White (), Engelhardt and Greenhalgh‐Stanley (), Longino et al . (), Litwak and Longino () Painter and Lee (), and Seko ().…”