Open AccessInformal And Formal Home Care For Older Adults With Disabilities Increased, 2004–16
Author(s) -
Courtney Harold Van Houtven,
R. Tamara Konetzka,
Elizabeth Taggert,
Norma B. Coe
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
health affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.837
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 2694-233X
pISSN - 0278-2715
DOI - 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01800
Subject(s) - medicine , gerontology
Rates of informal home care use among older adults with disabilities increased from 2004 to 2016, such that in 2016 almost three-quarters of these adults received informal home care. Informal care remains the most common source of home care, even though formal home care use grew at almost twice the rate, with a 6-percentage-point increase to 36.9 percent in 2016.