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PubMed1993

Social service interventions for caregivers of patients with dementia: impact on health care utilization and expenditures.

OBJECTIVES: An intervention, which had as its primary goal the enhancement of compliance to social work recommendations, was shown to produce extremely high rates of compliance. This report addresses the secondary objective of the study: to evaluate the impact of the intervention on short-term (ie, 6-month) health services utilization and expenditures. DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial. SETTING: University-based memory disorders clinic. PARTICIPANTS: Caregivers of patients with progressive memory disorders. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Service utilization and expenditures. RESULTS: The intervention did not have a statistically significant impact on utilization of either health care or community resources. The intervention group had $903 less expenditures during the study period, a difference that did not achieve statistical significance. The results were consistent when controlling for caregiver characteristics that differed at baseline. CONCLUSIONS: Although the intervention was successful in enhancing compliance with recommendations, more intensive interventions may be required to increase subsequent service utilization. Future investigations may wish to target the appropriateness of services used over a period longer than 6 months.

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PubMed1985

Medical care organization and the social service connection.

The medical profession has long dominated the organization of medical care in this country and has inevitably influenced the form taken by social work practice in medical settings. An overview of the forces and events that have shaped American medical care into a pluralistic health care system reveals that social workers will need to increase efforts to strike out on their own in the coming years.

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