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S M Keigher

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PubMed1997

Austria's new attendance allowance: a consumer-choice model of care for the frail and disabled.

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.

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PubMed1995

Naive, not stupid.

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PubMed1994

Toward an equitable, universal caregiver policy: the potential of financial supports for family caregivers.

This article describes the fragmented array of financial supports for family caregivers currently provided by the federal government, the states, and private employers-provisions that range from direct payments to tax allowances, dependent-care tax credits, and unpaid leave. It highlights the uneven pattern of supports available to family caregivers of the elderly, the younger physically disabled, and children and adults with mental retardation and developmental disabilities that results from the welfare bias still shaping many current provisions. The article then critiques current policy and examines the potential for more explicit family caregiver financial support policy through pending initiatives of the Clinton Administration.

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PubMed1992

Housing emergencies and the etiology of homelessness among the urban elderly.

This research examined factors that lead to homelessness and shelter placement of seniors. A purposive sample of 475 aged clients was selected randomly from the files of a citywide emergency service program, 45% of whom were found to have had serious housing-related problems. A subsample of 115 housing problem cases was investigated, including persons who had needed emergency shelter or temporary housing or been living in deteriorated housing. Assessment data from the OARS instrument and open-ended housing history questions were analyzed. Homelessness was found to be significantly associated with low income, dementia, living alone, and an unstable residential history.

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PubMed1989

Paid family caregiving and the market view of home care: agency perspectives.

Home care agency administrators were surveyed to explore their views on hiring kin to care for their own relatives. The results suggest that formal systems may tend to view paid family caregiving in ways similar to policy makers who express concern about substitution for unpaid care and runaway costs. Many administrators expected that families may abuse the program and accept pay for work not performed. A major implication of the study is that implementation of family compensation through agencies could result in attempts to focus on controlling informal care.

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