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J Health Hum Serv Adm ; 23(2): 136-60, 2000.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11481994

RESUMEN

There is concern throughout developed countries about how sufficient services can be mounted in this century to care for all older, disabled persons who want to remain at home. With declining availability of family care and high turnover among paid workers, cost, care supply, and quality dilemmas abound. Therefore, how can home care be improved? One suggestion is to revise the care "contract" by simply eliminating the costly bureaucratic and controlling dimensions of agency oversight and management. In consumer-directed or self-managed care, independent workers are hired directly by consumers or their family members. Consumers spend their own private money or government provides authorization for them to "hire" their own workers. Such arrangements may be more responsive to the needs of consumers, more directly accountable to them, and less costly for both individuals and government. This article examines 41 cases of consumer-directed care in Milwaukee. Extended interviews with three "stakeholders" in care--the disabled, older client, the family caregiver, and the personal assistant--were conducted, including both private pay and government subsidized arrangements. This analysis identifies some essential, but disparate interests of the three partners in care.


Asunto(s)
Cuidadores , Participación de la Comunidad , Anciano Frágil , Servicios de Salud para Ancianos/organización & administración , Servicios de Atención de Salud a Domicilio/organización & administración , Cuidados a Largo Plazo/organización & administración , Anciano , Financiación Personal , Investigación sobre Servicios de Salud , Servicios de Salud para Ancianos/economía , Servicios de Atención de Salud a Domicilio/economía , Humanos , Seguro de Cuidados a Largo Plazo , Entrevistas como Asunto , Cuidados a Largo Plazo/economía , Responsabilidad Social , Wisconsin
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J Women Aging ; 11(4): 87-111, 1999.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10721691

RESUMEN

This qualitative study examines relationships between adult daughters caring for elderly disabled mothers and the mothers' personal care workers (PCWs) paid directly by the Wisconsin Community Options Program (COP). A subset of a larger study, in these five cases PCWs provide substantial hands on care without substituting for the heavy care also provided by the daughters. Direct payment offers the daughters and workers freedom to schedule around their family obligations and other limits and tailor care to the abilities of all three participants. It also allows the daughter to be the paid provider when she chooses. Expansion of such supportive services could benefit many more low and middle income families.


Asunto(s)
Conducta Cooperativa , Personas con Discapacidad/psicología , Empatía , Auxiliares de Salud a Domicilio/psicología , Núcleo Familiar/psicología , Relaciones Profesional-Familia , Adaptación Psicológica , Adulto , Anciano , Actitud Frente a la Salud , Costo de Enfermedad , Servicios de Atención de Salud a Domicilio , Humanos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Atención Individual de Salud , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Wisconsin
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Int J Health Serv ; 27(4): 753-65, 1997.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9399117

RESUMEN

Austria's new social welfare provision, an attendance allowance, adopted in 1993, is a prototype for a consumer-directed care model for persons who are frail or disabled. This article describes the background to and provisions of the new legislation, including the unique political interests from the left and the right that converged to facilitate its passage. The author discusses eligibility criteria, the consumer autonomy principles underlying the model, and the impacts and implications anticipated. Such a model has been mentioned as an option for states considering creative expansion of long-term care provisions in the United States.


Asunto(s)
Personas con Discapacidad , Anciano Frágil , Servicios de Salud para Ancianos/tendencias , Programas Nacionales de Salud/tendencias , Bienestar Social/tendencias , Anciano , Austria , Evaluación de la Discapacidad , Determinación de la Elegibilidad/legislación & jurisprudencia , Predicción , Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud/legislación & jurisprudencia , Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud/tendencias , Servicios de Salud para Ancianos/legislación & jurisprudencia , Humanos , Indigencia Médica/legislación & jurisprudencia , Indigencia Médica/tendencias , Programas Nacionales de Salud/legislación & jurisprudencia
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