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Family caregivers -- including relatives, friends, neighbors, and others who provide unpaid support -- perform immensely valuable work, helping older adults with chronic disabilities get the help they need at home, rather than entering a facility. Recently, ASPE funded a study that combined data from the 2004 National Long Term Care Survey Caregiv

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The National Institute on Aging-funded survey was conducted by the Census and directed by the former Center for Demographic Studies at Duke University. The data are distributed through the National Archives of Computerized Data on Aging ( http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA ).

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The historical increases in use of assistive devices continued between 1999 and 2004, so that in 2004, nine in ten elders with disabilities were using at least one device. This represented an increase of nearly a million elders using devices, roughly equivalent to the increase in the 15 years between 1984 and 1999. What was different between 1999

This new analysis takes a first multivariate look at factors associated with independent device use for some activities and the association of independent device use with hours of care and unmet need in cross-section. To abstract from the larger question of whether any devices are used and focus on the effect of independent use on care hours and u

The upward trend in assistive device use continued at about the same pace between 1999 and 2004, rising from 86 percent of community residents with chronic disabilities to 90 percent ( Figure 1 ). The combined effects of the increase in the number with disabilities from 5.1 million to 5.7 million and the increased prevalence of device use

The remainder of this memorandum first presents updated trends in use of assistive devices through 2004 for the community-residing population with chronic disabilities. Results are then presented for an exploratory cross-sectional multivariate analysis of the 2004 data, examining whether the earlier descriptive those using both help and devices wh

Hours of care received in the last week rose with disability level and generally were higher for the group using both help and devices than for the group using only help. Frequency of need for accommodations, especially for mobility or transfer was important; hours of help were more than doubled for respondents reporting they needed accom

In 1999, about one in four chronically disabled community residents used only devices for all disabilities; nearly 60 percent used a combination of help and devices; and only about 15 percent reported using only help with all chronic disabilities. Persons managing all chronic disabilities with only devices were less disabled than persons

Between 1984 and 1999, the proportion of chronically disabled community residents using assistive devices, with or without help, for all activities doubled to nearly 30 percent; the proportion relying solely on help fell. Almost 1 million more elders were using devices with at least one activity in 1999 than in 1984.

The NLTCS is a nationally representative survey of persons aged 65 or older residing in the community or institutions conducted from 1982 through 2004, its final year. 1 The survey was designed to identify those with chronic disabilities and to collect detailed data on their disability, service use, family support, and health and demographic ch

This research updates an earlier study conducted to better understand the upward trend in assistive device use by older persons with disabilities between 1984 and 1999 observed in estimates from the National Long-Term Care Survey (NLTCS) and the implications for policy (Spillman 2005). The context of the earlier study was a declining overall disab

Overview of 20-Year Trends (1984-2004) in Assistive Device Use in the Older Population

The discussion above focuses on the savings that seniors will obtain once the full Medicare drug benefit is available. But the bill would generate other benefits as well and would not make seniors wait until 2005 to begin getting help with their drug costs.