Gender Disparities in the Receipt of Home Care for Elderly People With Disability in the United States

Abstract

Large gender disparities appear to exist in the receipt of informal home care for disabled elderly people in the United States, even within married households. Programs providing home care support for disabled elderly people need to consider these large gender disparities and the burden they impose on families when developing intervention strategies in the community.

Determinants of Long-Term Care Services among the Elderly: A Population-Based Study in Taiwan

“…This is consistent with previous research [11], [23]. Women make up a disproportionate number of the disabled elderly because they tend to live longer than men [23].…”

Determinants of Long-Term Care Services among the Elderly: A Population-Based Study in Taiwan

“…This is consistent with previous research [11], [23]. Women make up a disproportionate number of the disabled elderly because they tend to live longer than men [23].…”

Determinants for utilization and transitions of long-term care in adults 65+ in Germany: results from the longitudinal KORA-Age study

“…Regarding the average amount of LTC, our study showed that individuals receive more informal than formal LTC. Considering a similar definition of informal and formal LTC as our study, Wimo et al [ 53 ] and Katz et al [ 19 ] accord with our observations. Comparing the amount of LTC of our study with the amount of the two studies in minutes per day, it is notable that both other studies report higher values.…”

The Magnitude, Share and Determinants of Private Costs Incurred by Clients (and Their Caregivers) of In-home Publicly Financed Care

“…Females had lower private expenditures because they spent less time caring for themselves and received less caregiver assistance than male clients. This finding is consistent with previous studies that found females to be less likely to receive care and more likely to provide care to others (Aykan 2003;Katz et al 2000;Walter-Ginzburg et al 2001). We conjecture that women may take on caregiver roles more often than men, as suggested by our survey of caregivers (62% were female), because they perceive activities related to caregiving to be their responsibility within the home.…”

Determinants of Long-Term Care Services among the Elderly: A Population-Based Study in Taiwan

“…This is consistent with previous research [11], [23]. Women make up a disproportionate number of the disabled elderly because they tend to live longer than men [23].…”

Determinants for utilization and transitions of long-term care in adults 65+ in Germany: results from the longitudinal KORA-Age study

“…Regarding the average amount of LTC, our study showed that individuals receive more informal than formal LTC. Considering a similar definition of informal and formal LTC as our study, Wimo et al [ 53 ] and Katz et al [ 19 ] accord with our observations. Comparing the amount of LTC of our study with the amount of the two studies in minutes per day, it is notable that both other studies report higher values.…”

The Magnitude, Share and Determinants of Private Costs Incurred by Clients (and Their Caregivers) of In-home Publicly Financed Care

“…Females had lower private expenditures because they spent less time caring for themselves and received less caregiver assistance than male clients. This finding is consistent with previous studies that found females to be less likely to receive care and more likely to provide care to others (Aykan 2003;Katz et al 2000;Walter-Ginzburg et al 2001). We conjecture that women may take on caregiver roles more often than men, as suggested by our survey of caregivers (62% were female), because they perceive activities related to caregiving to be their responsibility within the home.…”

Determinants of Long-Term Care Services among the Elderly: A Population-Based Study in Taiwan

“…This is consistent with previous research [11], [23]. Women make up a disproportionate number of the disabled elderly because they tend to live longer than men [23].…”

Determinants for utilization and transitions of long-term care in adults 65+ in Germany: results from the longitudinal KORA-Age study

“…Regarding the average amount of LTC, our study showed that individuals receive more informal than formal LTC. Considering a similar definition of informal and formal LTC as our study, Wimo et al [ 53 ] and Katz et al [ 19 ] accord with our observations. Comparing the amount of LTC of our study with the amount of the two studies in minutes per day, it is notable that both other studies report higher values.…”

The Magnitude, Share and Determinants of Private Costs Incurred by Clients (and Their Caregivers) of In-home Publicly Financed Care

“…Females had lower private expenditures because they spent less time caring for themselves and received less caregiver assistance than male clients. This finding is consistent with previous studies that found females to be less likely to receive care and more likely to provide care to others (Aykan 2003;Katz et al 2000;Walter-Ginzburg et al 2001). We conjecture that women may take on caregiver roles more often than men, as suggested by our survey of caregivers (62% were female), because they perceive activities related to caregiving to be their responsibility within the home.…”