The monetary valuation of informal care to cancer decedents at end-of-life: Evidence from a national census survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Carers' end-of-life caregiving greatly benefits society but little is known about the monetary value of this care.

Aim

Within an end-of-life cancer setting: (1) to assess the feasibility and content validity of a post-bereavement measure of hours of care; and (2) to obtain a monetary value of this informal care and identify variation in this value among sub-groups.

Design and setting

A census based cross-sectional survey of all cancer deaths from a 2-week period in England collected detailed data on caregiving activity (10 caregiving tasks and the time spent on each). We descriptively analyse the information carers provided in 'other' tasks to inform content validity. We assigned a monetary value of caregiving via the proxy good method and examined variatio

SUBMITTER: Urwin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8022080 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature