Formal home care use and spousal health outcomes

Gonçalves, J. and von Hafe, F. and Filipe, L. (2021) Formal home care use and spousal health outcomes. Social Science and Medicine, 287: 114373. ISSN 0277-9536

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Abstract

This study explores the relationship between formal home care provided by paid professionals and spousal health outcomes. We use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe, a panel of older adults living in several European countries. We match new formal home care users to non-users to eliminate baseline (t−1) differences between couples who decide to seek formal home care in t and those who do not. After considering several potentially confounding changes between baseline and t, and looking closer at specific subgroups, we conclude that in the short run, use of formal home care is unlikely to affect spousal physical or mental health.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Social Science and Medicine

Additional Information:

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Social Science and Medicine. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Social Science and Medicine, 287, 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114373

Uncontrolled Keywords:

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Subjects:

?? caregiver burdenformal home carehealth indexhealth shocksinformal carespouse caregiversstatistical matchingagedagingarticlecaregiver burdencontrolled studyeuropefemalehome carehumanhuman experimentmalemental healthretirementspousehealth(social science) ??

Departments:

Faculty of Health and Medicine > Health Research

ID Code:

161011

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

14 Oct 2021 10:50

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published