The home care allowance program: a change in policy and implications for elder clients.
This paper reports the findings of a study exploring the effects of cutbacks in Colorado Home Care programs on frail elderly. Results indicate that these cutbacks put the respondents, who live in their own homes but are dependent on relatives, friends, or strangers for assistance in activities of daily living, at risk for long term institutionalization. These households are precursors of a growing healthcare crisis in aging populations where homecare assistance programs must supplement or supplant the resources of a thinning network of kin and friends.
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D003120:Colorado; D004608:Eligibility Determination / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006291:Health Policy; D006302:Health Services Research; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008484:Medicaid; D011158:Population Growth; D011788:Quality of Life; D012737:Sex Factors; D013221:State Health Plans / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States