Browsing by Subject "Long-Term Care"
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A new instrument for measuring anticoagulation-related quality of life: development and preliminary validation.
(Health Qual Life Outcomes, 2004-05-06)BACKGROUND: Anticoagulation can reduce quality of life, and different models of anticoagulation management might have different impacts on satisfaction with this component of medical care. Yet, to our knowledge, there are ... -
Aging in South Asia: Attitudes/Beliefs of Elders in Southern India and Long-Term Care of the Elderly in Southern Sri Lanka
(2013)Developing nations in Asia are posed to experience a significant increase in the population of older adults living in their respective societies. Over the coming decades, India, the second most populous country in the entire ... -
Community-Based Long-Term Care Services: If We Build It, Will They Come?
(Journal of aging and health, 2016-03)<h4>Objective</h4>This study examines the relationship between caregivers' perception of community-based long-term care (CBLTC) services and the service use.<h4>Method</h4>We used first two waves of the longitudinal data ... -
Does Medicaid pay more to a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) than for fee-for-service long-term care?
(J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2013-01)BACKGROUND: In rebalancing from nursing homes (NHs), states are increasing access of NH-certified dually eligible (Medicare/Medicaid) patients to community waiver programs and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly ... -
Five-year survival in a Program of All-inclusive Care for Elderly compared with alternative institutional and home- and community-based care.
(J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2010-07)BACKGROUND: Community-based services are preferred to institutional care for people requiring long-term care (LTC). States are increasing their Medicaid waiver programs, although Program of All-Inclusive Care For Elderly ... -
Implications of long-term care capacity response policies for an aging population: a simulation analysis.
(Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2014-05)<h4>Introduction</h4>The demand for long-term care (LTC) services is likely to increase as a population ages. Keeping pace with rising demand for LTC poses a key challenge for health systems and policymakers, who may be ... -
Primary Care Networks and Starfield's 4Cs: A Case for Enhanced Chronic Disease Management.
(International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021-03-12)The primary care network (PCN) was implemented as a healthcare delivery model which organises private general practitioners (GPs) into groups and furnished with a certain level of resources for chronic disease management. ... -
Projecting the effects of long-term care policy on the labor market participation of primary informal family caregivers of elderly with disability: insights from a dynamic simulation model.
(BMC geriatrics, 2016-03-23)<h4>Background</h4>Using Singapore as a case study, this paper aims to understand the effects of the current long-term care policy and various alternative policy options on the labor market participation of primary informal ... -
Projecting the number of older singaporeans with activity of daily living limitations requiring human assistance through 2030.
(Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 2014-01)<h4>Introduction</h4>In the context of rapid population ageing and the increase in number of activity of daily living (ADL) limitations with age, the number of older persons requiring human assistance in Singapore is likely ... -
Projection of young-old and old-old with functional disability: does accounting for the changing educational composition of the elderly population make a difference?
(PloS one, 2015-01)This study compares projections, up to year 2040, of young-old (aged 60-79) and old-old (aged 80+) with functional disability in Singapore with and without accounting for the changing educational composition of the Singaporean ... -
Simulating the impact of long-term care policy on family eldercare hours.
(Health services research, 2013-04)<h4>Objective</h4>To understand the effect of current and future long-term care (LTC) policies on family eldercare hours for older adults (60 years of age and older) in Singapore.<h4>Data sources</h4>The Social Isolation ...