For better or worse: Factors predicting outcomes of family care of older people over a one-year period. A six-country European study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Demographic change has led to an increase of older people in need of long-term care in nearly all European countries. Informal carers primarily provide the care and support needed by dependent people. The supply and willingness of individuals to act as carers are critical to sustain informal care resources as part of the home health care provision. This paper describes a longitudinal study of informal care in six European countries and reports analyses that determine those factors predicting the outcomes of family care over a one-year period.

Methods

Analyses are based on data from the EUROFAMCARE project, a longitudinal survey study of family carers of older people with baseline data collection in 2004 and follow-up data collection a year later in six European co

SUBMITTER: Ludecke D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5882153 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature