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TY - JOUR
T1 - Formal home care use and spousal health outcomes
AU - Gonçalves, J.
AU - von Hafe, F.
AU - Filipe, L.
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Social Science and Medicine. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Social Science and Medicine, 287, 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114373
PY - 2021/10/31
Y1 - 2021/10/31
N2 - This study explores the relationship between formal home care provided by paid professionals and spousal health outcomes. We use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe, a panel of older adults living in several European countries. We match new formal home care users to non-users to eliminate baseline (t−1) differences between couples who decide to seek formal home care in t and those who do not. After considering several potentially confounding changes between baseline and t, and looking closer at specific subgroups, we conclude that in the short run, use of formal home care is unlikely to affect spousal physical or mental health.
AB - This study explores the relationship between formal home care provided by paid professionals and spousal health outcomes. We use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe, a panel of older adults living in several European countries. We match new formal home care users to non-users to eliminate baseline (t−1) differences between couples who decide to seek formal home care in t and those who do not. After considering several potentially confounding changes between baseline and t, and looking closer at specific subgroups, we conclude that in the short run, use of formal home care is unlikely to affect spousal physical or mental health.
KW - Caregiver burden
KW - Formal home care
KW - Health index
KW - Health shocks
KW - Informal care
KW - Spouse caregivers
KW - Statistical matching
KW - aged
KW - aging
KW - article
KW - caregiver burden
KW - controlled study
KW - Europe
KW - female
KW - home care
KW - human
KW - human experiment
KW - male
KW - mental health
KW - retirement
KW - spouse
U2 - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114373
DO - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114373
M3 - Journal article
VL - 287
JO - Social Science and Medicine
JF - Social Science and Medicine
SN - 0277-9536
M1 - 114373
ER -