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Informal And Formal Home Care For Older Adults With Disabilities Increased, 2004-16.

Van Houtven CH, Konetzka RT, Taggert E, Coe NB. Informal And Formal Home Care For Older Adults With Disabilities Increased, 2004-16. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2020 Aug 1; 39(8):1297-1301.

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Abstract:

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.




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