Impact of formal care consumption on informal care use in Europe: What is happening at the beginning of dependency?
Formal care
Frailty
Informal care
Instrumental variable models
Long term care
Journal
Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
ISSN: 1872-6054
Titre abrégé: Health Policy
Pays: Ireland
ID NLM: 8409431
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 2022
07 2022
Historique:
received:
29
09
2020
revised:
10
06
2021
accepted:
17
04
2022
pubmed:
3
5
2022
medline:
22
6
2022
entrez:
2
5
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Little is known about care use decisions at the beginning of the disability process, when older people are vulnerable. This article investigates the impact of formal care (FC) consumption on informal care (IC) utilization in Europe in a population of frail older people. We use data from the Sarcopenia and Physical fRailty IN older people: multi-componenT Treatment strategies (SPRINTT) study, which involves a sample of 1515 elderly (70+) people surveyed in 11 European countries. We explore the impact of home-based FC use on IC use at the extensive and intensive margins. The use of FC is instrumented with a dichotomous variable reproducing the eligibility criteria for public home-based FC in each country. We show that receiving home-based FC positively and significantly affects the probability of using IC. Therefore, we conclude that home-based FC and IC are complementary at the beginning of the dependency process.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35501205
pii: S0168-8510(22)00089-6
doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.04.007
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Pagination
632-642Informations de copyright
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