The direct cost of disability of community-dwelling older persons in Belgium
Current policies aim to promote and develop community-based support of disabled elderly persons, yet knowledge of the cost implications is insufficient. Thus, we aimed to estimate, for three disability profiles and three presence levels of the main informal carer (none, non-cohabitant, cohabitant), the cost of formal and informal support currently provided at home in Belgium. In this cross-sectional study, a sample of 5,642 disabled elderly persons living at home was established between 2010 and 2016. The administrative database of the Belgian public healthcare insurance was merged with other... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Schlagwörter: | Public Health / Environmental and Occupational Health / Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) / Health(social science) / Geriatrics and Gerontology / Social Psychology |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26598968 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/229651 |