Do Nurse-Led Skill Training Interventions Affect Informal Caregivers' Out-of-Pocket Expenditures?
Author(s) -
Courtney H. Van Houtven,
J. Thorpe,
D. Chestnutt,
Margory A. Molloy,
John Boling,
Lauren Davis
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the gerontologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1758-5341
pISSN - 0016-9013
DOI - 10.1093/geront/gns045
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , psychological intervention , randomized controlled trial , affect (linguistics) , medicine , gerontology , psychology , physical therapy , nursing , surgery , communication
This paper is a report of a study of the Assistance, Support, and Self-health Initiated through Skill Training (ASSIST) randomized control trial. The aim of this paper is to understand whether participating in ASSIST significantly changed the out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for family caregivers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) or Parkinson's disease (PD) patients.
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