2009
DOI: 10.12927/hcq.2009.20660
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Abstract: C anadians provide significant amounts of unpaid care to elderly family members and friends with long-term health problems. While some information is available on the nature of the tasks unpaid caregivers perform, and the amounts of time they spend on these tasks, the contribution of unpaid caregivers is often hidden. (It is recognized that some caregiving may be for short periods of time or may entail matters better described as "help" or "assistance," such as providing transportation. However, we use caregiv… Show more

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“…From a health-care reform perspective, policy makers need to take into account that informal caregiving is costly and is accompanied by many physical and emotional burdens, although the "choice" to care for a loved one is typically preferred by the care partner compared with paying for medical services or having the patient leave home and is valued by both the care partner and the patient. 49 Future work should evaluate positive aspects of the caregiving role in MS, as well as how care partners can be supported to minimize adverse effects on physical and psychological health. In addition, there is a great need to further address the economic effects of informal care partners to gain a better understanding about what factors affect workplace absenteeism, the decisions to change jobs or reduce workload, and the financial impact of changes in employment secondary to the sex of the caregiver.…”
Section: Care Partner Socioeconomic Burdenmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From a health-care reform perspective, policy makers need to take into account that informal caregiving is costly and is accompanied by many physical and emotional burdens, although the "choice" to care for a loved one is typically preferred by the care partner compared with paying for medical services or having the patient leave home and is valued by both the care partner and the patient. 49 Future work should evaluate positive aspects of the caregiving role in MS, as well as how care partners can be supported to minimize adverse effects on physical and psychological health. In addition, there is a great need to further address the economic effects of informal care partners to gain a better understanding about what factors affect workplace absenteeism, the decisions to change jobs or reduce workload, and the financial impact of changes in employment secondary to the sex of the caregiver.…”
Section: Care Partner Socioeconomic Burdenmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Conceptually, aging in place has garnered increasing attention in efforts to align the priorities of older adults, families, care providers, and policymakers (Vasunilashorn, Steinman, Liebig, & Pynoos, 2012). However, reports that unpaid family members and friends provide 70–80% of community-based care in Canada (Sinha et al, 2016), and save the public systems $25 billion in Canada (Hollander, Liu, & Chappell, 2009) and $470 billion in the U.S.A. (National Alliance for Caregiving & AARP Public Policy Institute, 2015, p. 3), question how equitably the responsibility of care is currently distributed between the public system and its citizens.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Throughout this paper, the term family and informal caregivers will be used interchangeably. There is no dispute that family caregivers are instrumental in providing care for seniors which translates to a cost savings to the health care system (AARP, 2007(AARP, , 2011Canadian Home Care Association, 2009;Access Economics, 201 0;Hollander, Liu, & Chappell, 2009;Jakobsen, Poulsen, Reiche, Nissen, & Gundgaard, 2011).…”
Section: Vllmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Various methods have been described in literature to determine a value for family care giving (AARP, 2011;Access Economics, 2005, 2011Hollander, Liu, Chappell, 2009;Jakobsen et al , 2011 ;Van Den Berg, Ferrer-I-Carbonell, 2007 Therefore the demand for family (informal) caregivers will increase. Presently it is the baby boomers ' parents that are the older segment of the population (Keefe, Legare & Carriere, 2007) however it is estimated that by 2021 the baby boomers will be in that older segment (Keefe, et a. , 2007).…”
Section: Vllmentioning
confidence: 99%
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