Objective To identify and categorize home-and community-based services used by older
adults and the distribution of their utilization, and to examine their utilization patterns in terms …

Long‐term care of older adults is currently suffering from a shortage of trained personnel
and high turnover rates. Care work is poorly paid, demanding, increasingly time‐bound and …

Background Aged care support services in Australia are delivered through home care
packages, permanent residential care, respite care and transition care. This study aimed to …

Encouraging and hel** elderly to postpone a nursing home admission appears to be a
win-win that keeps long-term care spending in check and is in line with the target …

In several OECD countries the percentage of elderly in long-term care institutions has been
declining as a result of ageing-in-place. However, due to the rapid ageing of population in …

Unexpected negative health shocks of a parent may reduce adult children's labour supply
via informal caregiving and stress-induced mental health problems. We link administrative …

Aims and objectives To describe what effects low back pain has on the daily lives of female
family caregivers and to elucidate the caregiving factors associated with its development …

Objectives Residential long-term care (LTC) use has declined in many countries over the
past years. This study quantifies how changing rates of entry, exit, and mortality have …

In this chapter we consider the nursing home as both a site and a symbol that fashions the
social imaginary of a fourth age. Before exploring the nursing home's dual role, we will first …

Using data from two cohorts, we examine to what extent a decline in institutional care in the
Netherlands is associated with changes in the need for care and/or societal factors. We …