Household responses to public home care programs

Household responses to public home care programs.

A choice-theoretic model of household decision-making with respect to care-giving time allocations and the use of publicly and privately financed home care services are proposed. Predictions concerning the effect of increased availability of publicly financed home care services on home care utilization, informal care giving, and health status are derived. These predictions are assessed through ...

Coordinated care and public programs.

[An approach to home care. How does the Catalonian public health system handle home care?].

OBJECTIVE To describe the organizational model, resources and implementation of the home care program run by the Catalonian public health service, and to note difficulties reported by primary care professionals. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive study.Setting. Autonomous Community of Catalonia. PARTICIPANTS 214 primary care centers (PCCs) operating under reformed administrative procedures...

Informal Home Care and Labor Force Participation of Household Members

In Germany, informal home care is preferred to professional care services in the public discussion as well as in legal care regulations. However, they ascribe only minor importance to the opportunity costs care givers have to face. Therefore, this paper explores the infl uence home care has on the labor supply of carers who live together with their care recipient. I am using the German Socio-Ec...

Informal Home Care and Labor Force Participation of Household

In Germany, informal home care is preferred to professional care services in the public discussion as well as in legal care regulations. However, they ascribe only minor importance to the opportunity costs care givers have to face. Therefore, this paper explores the infl uence home care has on the labor supply of carers who live together with their care recipient. I am using the German Socio-Ec...