Cost of informal caregiving associated with stroke among the elderly in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We estimated the informal caregiving hours and costs associated with stroke.

Methods

We selected persons aged 65 years and older in 2006 and who were also included in the 2008 follow-up survey from the Health and Retirement Study. We adapted the case-control study design by using self-reported occurrence of an initial stroke event during 2006 and 2008 to classify persons into the stroke (case) and the nonstroke (control) groups. We compared informal caregiving hours between case and control groups in 2006 (prestroke period for case group) and in 2008 (poststroke period for case group) and estimated incremental informal caregiving hours attributable to stroke by applying a difference-in-differences technique to propensity score-matched populations. We used a replac

SUBMITTER: Joo H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4365923 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature