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Zhu Carolyn W. Moore Michael J. Clipp Elizabeth C. 《Review of Economics of the Household》2003,1(1-2):59-76
Informal caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease spend a considerable amount of time providing care. In this paper, we use Grossman's health production and Becker's time allocation models to develop a model of informal care provision to elderly dementia patients. In our model, time inputs produce caregiving services, which provides utility to the caregiver, but reduces leisure. We assume that time is less productive of services on the margin as the disease progresses. In this framework, an increase in patients' disease severity does not necessarily increase informal caregiver time input. The cost of formal care establishes a reservation price for informal caregiving. When the costs of informal caregiving rise above this reservation level, the patient is institutionalized. We test empirically the effect of deterioration in the patients' condition, proxied by both disease severity and dementia problem behavior, on informal caregiving time. We find that dementia-related problem behaviors and functional limitations significantly increase inputs of informal caregiving time. Patients' problem behavior exerts a modifying effect on functional limitations, and patients' comorbidities have no effect on informal caregiving time. 相似文献
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Courtney?Harold?Van?HoutvenEmail author Michele?R.?Wilson Elizabeth?C.?Clipp 《Review of Economics of the Household》2005,3(4):415-433
Providing informal care has negative health consequences for informal caregivers. If these health consequences increase drug
utilization among caregivers, estimates of health care savings from informal care—mainly realized through reductions in utilization
among care recipients—should consider the increased drug costs incurred by informal caregivers. This paper evaluates whether
more intensive informal caregivers have higher drug utilization than less intensive caregivers, controlling for initial health
status and other factors. We find that informal care intensity is associated with higher drug consumption. An increase of
10% of total informal care per day is associated with a 0.7% increase in drugs. The small magnitudes indicate that, in this
application, it is not important to consider caregiver drug utilization when quantifying the net savings to the health care
system of informal care. For individual caregivers, such as those who take multiple drugs per month and/or have no drug coverage,
the increase in drug utilization associated with intensive caregiving is likely to be costly. 相似文献
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Michele R. Wilson Courtney Harold Van Houtven Sally C. Stearns Elizabeth C. Clipp 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2007,28(4):684-698
Although providing informal care can negatively affect caregiver emotional health and lead to depression, the association
between caregiver depression and missed work is unknown. We use data from the National Longitudinal Caregiver Survey to examine
the relationship between caregiver depression and missed work among informal caregivers for older veterans with Alzheimer’s
disease or vascular dementia. Two-part models are used to estimate the expected hours of work missed among working caregivers.
Caregiver depression is statistically significantly associated with the likelihood and amount of time missed at work, resulting
in an average of an extra half-day of work missed per month. While the effect of caregiver depression on work missed is modest,
it represents another possible benefit from interventions to support caregivers. 相似文献
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