Is the grass greener on the other side? The health impact of providing informal care in the UK and the Netherlands

Bom, Judith; Stöckel, Jannis

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113562

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“…Interestingly, I also do not find evidence for negative effects of informal care provision on health. In line with a recent study on the U.K. (Bom and Stöckel, 2021), I find that informal care provision has small positive effects on caregiver's health. These effects disappear at higher intensities of care provision, but in contrast to Bom and Stöckel (2021) I do not find evidence of negative health effects even for high intensity caregiving.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Here, the model using only Lewbel instruments indicates an increase in functional limitations in instrumental activities of daily living. Although such positive effects of informal care provision on health might seem surprising, they are in line with earlier findings by Bom and Stöckel (2021), who report a positive effect of informal care provision on physical health in the U.K. In their study, negative effects of informal care provision on mental health only emerge for high-intensity care provision in the U.K.…”

Section: Informal Care Provision and Healthsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Interestingly, I also do not find evidence for negative effects of informal care provision on health. This finding is in line with a recent study on care provision in the U.K. (Bom and Stöckel, 2021). Although in contrast to Bom and Stöckel (2021), I also find no evidence of negative effects of high intensity care provision, these differences might simply reflect differences in the underlying data and should therefore not be overinterpreted.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…These results do not necessarily contradict each other, since both studies differ in their methodological approaches as well as their study populations. Bom and Stöckel (2021) There are several important limitations of this study. First, previous studies have considered alternative instruments that I could not assess in this study.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…I also consider five measures of health to examine whether findings on the health effects of informal care provision can be replicated in the ELSA data (Bom and Stöckel, 2021). I use a measure of poor self-reported health, which takes on the value of 1 if respondents reported their general health status as "fair" or "poor", and 0 if they report their health status as "excellent", "very good" or "good".…”

Section: Health Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Informal caregiving, time use and experienced wellbeing

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Informal carers report lower evaluative wellbeing than non-carers. In contrast to this literature and our own analysis of evaluative wellbeing, we find carers have a small but higher level of experienced wellbeing than non-carers do. To investigate why, we use decomposition analysis which separates explanatory factors into how time is used and how those uses of time are experienced. We analyze activities and associated experienced wellbeing measured in ten-minute intervals over two days by 4817 adults from the 2014/15 UK Time Use Survey. We use entropy balancing to compare carers with a re-weighted counterfactual non-carer group and then apply Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The experienced wellbeing gap of 0.066 is the net result of several substantial competing effects of time use. Carers experienced wellbeing would be higher by 0.188 if they had the same patterns and returns to time use as non-carers which is driven by sleep, time stress and alternative characteristics of time use. However, leisure and non-market activities serve to dampen this increase in experienced wellbeing. Initiatives to improve and assess carer wellbeing should pay close attention to how carers spend their time.

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Herausforderungen in der Versorgung schwer psychisch kranker Menschen

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ZusammenfassungDie Prävalenz schwerer und chronischer psychischer Erkrankungen wird auf 1–2 % der Erwachsenenbevölkerung geschätzt. Neben der großen Erkrankungslast verbinden sich hiermit vor allem auch deutliche Risiken hinsichtlich der Teilhabe an Bildung, Arbeit, Wohnen und sozialem Leben. Zudem gehen schwere psychische Erkrankungen mit einer deutlich reduzierten somatischen Gesundheit und Lebenserwartung einher. Entsprechend hoch sind die verschiedenen Bedarfe der Betroffenen. Eine erforderliche umfassende und multiprofessionelle Behandlung in einem ambulanten Setting, die sich an den individuellen und im zeitlichen Verlauf auch an den wechselnden Bedarfen orientieren muss, wird in Deutschland nur zögerlich umgesetzt. Dabei stehen verschiedene Instrumente zur Verfügung, die darauf gerichtet sind, eine personenzentrierte und koordinierte Versorgung und Überwindung von Sektoren- und Sozialgesetzgebungsgrenzen zu ermöglichen. Der Beitrag skizziert die besondere Lebens- und Versorgungssituation schwer psychisch kranker Menschen und greift dabei Aspekte psychiatrischer Pflege und der Pflegebedürftigkeit i. S. des SGB XI, § 14 auf.

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Is the grass greener on the other side? The health impact of providing informal care in the UK and the Netherlands

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