The purpose of the synthesis paper is to review, summarize, and discuss the significance of available research findings on the frontline long-term care (LTC) workforce since 1999, in both home and community-based and nursing home settings. This paper provides an updated review of the status of empirical findings, focusing on what has been learned between 1999 and 2003.
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Advanced SearchEasing the Burden of Caregiving: The Effect of Consumer Direction on Primary Informal Caregivers in Arkansas
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Informal and Formal Caregiving among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders Living in the Community
Marc A. Cohen, Ph.D. Vice President, LifePlans, Inc. President, Center for Health and Long-Term Care Research Maurice Weinrobe, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Clark University
Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Informal and Formal Caregiving among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders Living in the Community - Executive Summary
Marc A. Cohen, Ph.D. Vice President, LifePlans, Inc. President, Center for Health and Long-Term Care Research Maurice Weinrobe, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Clark University Jessica Miller, M.S.
Informal Caregivers of Disabled Elders with Long-Term Care Insurance
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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A Descriptive Analysis of Patterns of Informal and Formal Caregiving among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders Living in the Community
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Informal Caregiving: Compassion in Action
This booklet, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is about informal caregiving unpaid care given voluntarily to ill or disabled persons by their families and friends. Informal caregiving by families and friends is the backbone of America's long-term care system.
Caring for Frail Elderly People: Policies in Evolution
In Chapter 14 (United States), the long development of long-term care policy is described, giving particular emphasis to the functioning of the main programs introduced in the 1960s, and their progressive modification up to the 1990s. Finally, an outline is given of the main reform debates of the late 1980s and 1990s. [38 PDF pages]
Eldercare: The Impact of Family Caregivers' Employment on Formal and Informal Helper Hours
The 1989 National Long Term Care Survey is the first nationally representative survey to collect data on weekly hours of assistance received by ADL and/or IADL disabled elders living in the community by individual caregivers, both formal and informal.