Corruption continues to be a major issue of global concern and discussions on the have escalated over past two decades, prompting Bretton Woods institutions donor community tie development assistance governance indicators. Accordingly, there is growing shift among research toward disaggregated corruption due beguiling assumption that reduction in grand would knock-on effect petty corruption. Gh...

Most estimates of the cost of informal caregiving in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) remain cross-sectional. Longitudinal estimates of informal caregiving hours and costs are less frequent and are from assessments covering only short periods of time. The objectives of this study were to estimate long-term trajectories of the use and cost of informal caregiving for patients with AD and th...

People with Alzheimer's disease living in a defined community in New York City were identified and assessed on two occasions to determine the number of hours of activities of daily living (ADL) care they received. Nearly half received all care hours from informal sources; however, a quarter received all ADL care hours from formal sources. The mean number of daily ADL hours in the sample was 9.7...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine the feasibility of individualized caregiver training for home care and symptom management conducted at the bedside of older patients with cancer prior to hospital discharge. DESIGN Pilot study. SETTING The Extended Care Rehabilitation Center at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center in North Carolina. SAMPLE 7 female informal caregivers with a mean age ...

BACKGROUND Informal (dementia) care has economic consequences throughout the health care system. Whilst the health and wellbeing of the care recipient might improve, the health of the caregiver might also change, typically for the worse. Therefore, this analysis aims to examine the association between caregiving intensity and caregivers' health and health care utilization. DATA AND METHODS Th...

PURPOSE This study examined how the amount of informal care received by disabled elders changes when they are receiving publicly paid home care, and whether formal service use, disability, caregiving arrangements, and demographic characteristics of older adults predict changes in the amount of informal care. DESIGN AND METHODS Hierarchical linear models were estimated, using 3-year data (12 r...

This study estimates the effects of formal home care on hospitalizations and doctor visits. We compare the effects of medicallyand non-medically-related home care and investigate heterogeneous effects by age group and informal care availability. Two-part models are estimated, using data from Switzerland. In this federal country, home care policy is decentralized into cantons (i.e. states). The ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the cost utility of early psychosocial intervention for patients with Alzheimer's disease and their primary caregivers. DESIGN Cost utility evaluation alongside a multicentre, randomised controlled trial with 3 years of follow-up. SETTING Primary care and memory clinics in five Danish districts. PARTICIPANTS 330 community-dwelling patients and their primary caregivers....