Individual determinants of task division in older adults' mixed care networks

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-66

  Jacobs, Marianne T ^a   Broese van Groenou, Marjolein I ^a   de Boer, Alice H ^b   Deeg, Dorly J H ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b The Netherlands Institute for Social Research   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Care network; Formal home care; Informal care; Older adults; Task division

Indexed keywords

AGED; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIALIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIALIZATION;

EID: 84889680150     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12061     Document Type: Article

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