Abstract:Background
Home support services aim to support older people to remain at home. Despite substantial investment in home support hours (€600 million), this has not translated into increased carers on the ground for older people. We aimed to report patterns of home support service utilisation in older patients with memory problems, and identify any mis-matches between allocated and received hours, and the impact on patients and caregivers.
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