“The Home Care Industry in California Is Growing and Largely Unregulated,” by Nadereh Pourat (September 2013, .pdf format, 4p.).
healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/search/pages/detail.aspx?PubID=1216
“The Home Care Industry in California Is Growing and Largely Unregulated,” by Nadereh Pourat (September 2013, .pdf format, 4p.).
healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/search/pages/detail.aspx?PubID=1216
“Unpaid Eldercare in the United States–2011-2012: Data From the American Time Use Survey,” (September 2013, .pdf and HTML format, 22p.).
A. “Portrait of caregivers, 2012,” by Maire Sinha (Spotlight on Canadians: Results from the General Social Survey, September 2013, .pdf and HTML format, 21p.).
www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-652-x/89-652-x2013001-eng.htm
B. “Family caregiving: What are the consequences?” by Martin Turcotte (Insights on Canadian Society, September 2013, .pdf and HTML format, 14p.).
www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-006-x/2013001/article/11858-eng.htm
“The Aging of the Baby Boom and the Growing Care Gap: A Look at Future Declines in the Availability of Family Caregivers,” by Donald Redfoot, Lynn Feinberg, and Ari Houser (August 2013, .pdf format, 12p.).
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 13, No. 6, July 30, 2013).
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 13, No. 5, July 2, 2013).
“Care in specialist medical and mental health unit compared with standard care for older people with cognitive impairment admitted to general hospital: randomised controlled trial (NIHR TEAM trial),” by Sarah E. Goldberg, Lucy E. Bradshaw, Fiona C. Kearney, Catherine Russell, Kathy H. Whittamore, Pippa E.R. Foster, Jil Mamza, John R.F. Gladman, Rob G. Jones, Sarah A. Lewis, Davina Porock, and Rowan H. Harwood (BMJ 2013;347:f4132).
Note: Lancet requires free registration before providing content. “Exercise for depression in elderly residents of care homes: a cluster-randomised controlled trial,” by Martin Underwood, Sarah E. Lamb, Sandra Eldridge, Bart Sheehan, Anne-Marie Slowther, Anne Spencer, Margaret Thorogood, Nicky Atherton, Stephen A. Bremner, Angela Devine, Karla Diaz-Ordaz, David R Ellard, Rachel Potter, Kathleen Spanjers,Stephanie J.C. Taylor (Vol. 382, No. 9886, Jul. 6, 2013, p. 41-49).
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2960649-2/abstract
“The High Cost of Caring: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren,” by D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto and Steven P. Wallace (June 2013, .pdf format, 8p.).
healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/search/pages/detail.aspx?PubID=1200
A. “Medicaid Insurance in Old Age,” by Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, and John Bailey Jones (w19151, June 2013, .pdf format, 50p.).
Abstract:
The old age provisions of the Medicaid program were designed to insure poor retirees against medical expenses. However, it is the rich who are most likely to live long and face expensive medical conditions when very old. We estimate a rich structural model of savings and endogenous medical spending with heterogeneous agents, and use it to compute the distribution of lifetime Medicaid transfers and Medicaid valuations across single retirees.
We find that retirees with high lifetime incomes can end up on Medicaid, and often value Medicaid’s insurance features the most, as they face a larger risk of catastrophic medical needs at old ages, and face the greatest consumption risk. Finally, our compensating differential calculations indicate that retirees value Medicaid insurance at more than its actuarial cost, but that most would value expansions of the current Medicaid program at less than cost.
B. “Donative Behavior at the End of Life,” by Jonathan Meer and Harvey S. Rosen (w19145, June 2013, .pdf format, 20p.).
Abstract:
A general finding in the empirical literature on charitable giving is that among older individuals, both the probability of giving and the conditional amount of donations decrease with age, ceteris paribus. In this paper, we use data on giving by alumni at an anonymous university to investigate end-of-life giving patterns. Our main finding is that taking into account the approach of death substantially changes the age-giving profile for the elderly-in one segment of the age distribution, the independent effect of an increase in age on giving actually changes from negative to positive.
We examine how the decline in giving as death approaches varies with the length of time that a given condition is likely to bring about death, and the individual’s age when he died. We find that for individuals who died from conditions that bring about death fairly quickly, there is little decline in giving as death approaches compared to those who died from other causes. Further, the decline in giving as death approaches is steeper for the elderly (for whom death is less likely to be a surprise) than for the relatively young. These findings suggest that our primary result, that failing to take into account the approach of death leads to biased inferences with respect to the age-giving profile, is not merely an artifact of some kind of nonlinearity in the relationship between age and giving.
C. “Informal Care and Caregiver’s Health,” by Young Kyung Do, Edward C. Norton, Sally Stearns, and Courtney H. Van Houtven (w19142, June 2013, .pdf format, 30p.).
Abstract:
This study aims to measure the causal effect of informal caregiving on the health and health care use of women who are caregivers, using instrumental variables. We use data from South Korea, where daughters and daughters-in-law are the prevalent source of caregivers for frail elderly parents and parents-in-law. A key insight of our instrumental variable approach is that having a parent-in-law with functional limitations increases the probability of providing informal care to that parent-in-law, but a parent-in-law’s functional limitation does not directly affect the daughter-in-law’s health. We compare results for the daughter-in-law and daughter samples to check the assumption of the excludability of the instruments for the daughter sample. Our results show that providing informal care has significant adverse effects along multiple dimensions of health for daughter-in-law and daughter caregivers in South Korea.
D. “Propagation and Smoothing of Shocks in Alternative Social Security Systems,” by Alan Auerbach, Lorenz Kueng, and Ronald Lee (w19137, June 2013, .pdf format, 41p.).
Abstract:
Even with well-developed capital markets, there is no private market mechanism for trading between current and future generations, so a potential role for public old-age pension systems is to spread economic and demographic shocks among different generations. This paper evaluates the smoothing and propagation of shocks of three pay-as-you-go public pension schemes, based on the actual U.S. and German systems, which vary in the extent to which they rely on tax adjustments versus benefit adjustments to provide annual cash-flow budget balance. Modifying the Auerbach-Kotlikoff (1987) dynamic general-equilibrium overlapping generations model to incorporate realistic patterns of fertility and mortality and shocks to productivity, fertility and mortality, we evaluate the effectiveness of the three public pension systems at spreading the effects of such shocks. We find that the systems, particularly those that rely to some extent on tax adjustments, are effective at spreading fertility and mortality shocks, but that this is not the case for productivity shocks, for which the pension systems actually tend to concentrate the economic impact. These results suggest that both system design and the source of shocks are important factors in determining the potential of public pension arrangements to spread the burden of shocks.
“Keeping Up with the Times: Supporting Family Caregivers with Workplace Leave Policies,” by Lynn Feinberg (June 2013, .pdf format, 18p.).
“Keeping Up with the Times: Supporting Family Caregivers with Workplace Leave Policies,” by Lynn Feinberg (June 2013, .pdf format, 18p.).
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 13, No. 3, March 28, 2013).
“The gender gap in unpaid care provision: is there an impact on health and economic position?” (May 2013, .pdf and HTML format, 27p.).
“Accelerating Adoption of Assistive Technology to Reduce Physical Strain among Family Caregivers of the Chronically Disabled Elderly Living at Home,” (January 2013, .pdf and HTML format, 109p.).
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 13, No. 2, March 6, 2013).
“The Aged Care Workforce 2012: Final Report,” by Debra King, Kostas Mavromaras, Bryan He, Joshua Healy, Kirsten Macaitis, Megan Moskos, Llainey Smith, and Zhang Wei (February 2013, .pdf format, 189p.).
www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/ageing-nat-agedcare-workforce-census-survey
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 13, No. 1, February 19, 2013).
“2011 Census Analysis: Unpaid care in England and Wales, 2011 and comparison with 2001,” (February 2013, .pdf and HTML format, 29p.).
“The Sandwich Generation: Rising Financial Burdens for Middle-Aged Americans,” by Kim Parker and Eileen Patten (January 2013, .pdf and HTML format, 29p.).
“Investing in care: Recognising and valuing those who care,” (January 2013, .pdf and Word format). Note the report is in 2 volumes (Vol. 1 64p., Vol. 2 140p.).
www.humanrights.gov.au/sex_discrimination/VUCW_australiaResearchPrj/index.htm
A. Caregiving Across the Lifespan, edited by Ronda C. Talley and Rhonda J.C. Montgomery (2013, 185p., ISBN (cloth): 978-1-4614-5552-3; (e-book) 978-1-4614-5553-0). For more information see:
www.springer.com/psychology/book/978-1-4614-5552-3
B. Rural Aging in 21st Century America, edited by Nina Glasgow and E. Helen Berry (2013, 384p., ISBN (cloth): 978-94-007-5566-6; (e-book): 978-94-007-5567-3). For more information see:
www.springer.com/social+sciences/population+studies/book/978-94-007-5566-6
A. “Older Carers,” (Australian Social Trends, December 2012, .pdf and HTML format, 5p.).
HTML:
www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Features40Dec+2012
PDF:
B. “People identified as having dementia or Alzheimer’s disease,” (Australian Social Trends, December 2012, .pdf and HTML format, 6p.).
HTML:
www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Features50Dec+2012
PDF:
“Adding eldercare questions to the American Time Use Survey,” by Stephanie L. Denton (Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 135, No. 11, November 2012, .pdf format, p. 26-35).
A. “Improving decision-making in the care and support of older people,” by Steve Broome, Benedict Dellot, Emma Lindley, Emma Norris, Jonathan Rowson, Didier Soopramanien, and Edward Truch (December 2012, .pdf format, 70p.).
www.jrf.org.uk/publications/improving-decision-making-care
B. “Risk, trust and relationships in an ageing society,” by Gillian Dalley, Kenneth Gilhooly, Mary Gilhooly, Julie Barnett, Fernand Gobet, Priscilla Harries, Sarah Niblock, Mary Pat Sullivan and Christina Victor (December 2012, .pdf format, 65p.).
www.jrf.org.uk/publications/risk-trust-and-relationships-ageing-society
“Managing Caregiver Emotions,” by Sarah Abrahms (November 2012).
www.aarp.org/home-family/caregiving/info-11-2012/managing-caregiver-emotions.html
A. “Personal Care Services: Trends, Vulnerabilities, and Recommendations for Improvement: a Portfolio” (OIG-12-12-01, November 2012, .pdf format, 23p.).
oig.hhs.gov/reports-and-publications/portfolio/index.asp
B. “Improvements Are Needed at the Administrative Law Judge Level of Medicare Appeals,” (OEI-02-10-00340, November 2012, .pdf format, 35p.).
“Understanding the Impact of Family Caregiving and Work,” by Lynn Feinberg and Rita Choula (October 2012, .pdf format, 4p.).
“Home Alone: Family Caregivers Providing Complex Chronic Care,” by Susan C. Reinhard, Carol Levine, & Sarah Samis (October 2012, .pdf format, 50p.).
A. “Meeting the Needs of Diverse Family Caregivers,” by Susan C. Reinhard and Rita Choula (September 2012, .pdf format, 9p.).
B. “Across the States 2012: Profiles of Long Term Services and Supports,” by Ari Houser, Wendy Fox-Grage, and Kathleen Ujvari (September 2012, .pdf format, 370p.).
“Protecting Family Caregivers from Employment Discrimination,” by Joan C. Williams, Robin Devaux, Patricia Petrac, and Lynn Feinberg (August 2012, .pdf format, 26p.).
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 12, No. 16, August 8, 2012).
“Ten Most Common Chronic Conditions Among Persons Living in Residential Care Facilities–National Survey of Residential Care Facilities, United States, 2010″ (US Centers for Disease Control, Vol. 61, No. 31, Aug. 10, 2012, HTML and .pdf format, p. 603).
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6131a6.htm?s_cid=mm6131a6_w
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 12, Nos. 14 & 15, July 11 & July 26, 2012).
“Assessing Family Caregiver Needs: Policy and Practice Considerations,” by Lynn Feinberg, Ari Houser (July 2012, .pdf format, 4p.).
A. “Assisted Living and Residential Care in the States in 2010,” by Ari Houser, Kathleen Ujvari, and Robert Mollica (July 2012, .pdf format, 12p.).
B. “The State of Measurement of Respite Care,” by Ari Houser and Kathleen Ujvari (July 2012, .pdf format, 11p.).
“Informal caregiving for seniors,” by Annie Turner and Leanne Findlay (Health Reports, Vol. 23, No. 2, July 2012, .pdf and HTML format, 5p.).
www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2012003/article/11694-eng.htm
“Caregivers in the U.S.,” by Susannah Fox and Joanna Brenner (July 2012, .pdf and HTML format, 42p.).
pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Caregivers-online/Main-Report/Caregivers-in-the-US.aspx
“Assessing Family Caregiver Needs: Policy and Practice Considerations,” by Lynn Feinberg and Ari Houser (July 2012, .pdf format, 4p.).
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 12, No. 13, June 27, 2012).
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 12, No. 12, June 13, 2012).
“Early Release of Selected Estimates Based on Data From the 2011 National Health Interview Survey,” by B.W. Ward, P.M. Barnes, G. Freedman, and J.S. Schiller (June 2012, .pdf format, 131p.).
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 12, No. 11, May 30, 2012).
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 12, No. 10, May 16, 2012).
“Raising Expectations: A State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for Older Adults, People with Physical Disabilities, and Family Caregivers,” by Susan Reinhard, Enid Kassner, Leslie Hendrickson, and Robert Mollica (May 2012, .pdf format).
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 12, No. 9, May 2, 2012).
“Webinar Series on Alzheimer’s Disease and Tools for Caregivers.” The Webinar will occur in three parts: May 9, June 13, and July 12. Registration is required.
Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 12, No. 8, Apr. 18, 2012).
“Seniors in need, caregivers in distress: What are the home care priorities for seniors in Canada?” (April 2012, .pdf format, 64p.).
“Consumer Engagement in the Aged Care Reform Process” (December 2011, .pdf and Microsoft Word format, 194p.). The report is linked from an Australian Department of Health and Ageing news release: “New Alzheimer’s Australia Report Shows Aged Care System is Failing Dementia Sufferers and their Families” (Apr. 9, 2012, HTML and .pdf format, 2p.).
www.health.gov.au/internet/ministers/publishing.nsf/Content/mr-yr12-mb-mb027.htm
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