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The Economic Value Of Informal Caregiving: President Clinton's proposal to provide relief to family caregivers opens a long-overdue discussion of this “invisible” health care sector.
Abstract
This study explores the current market value of the care provided by unpaid family members and friends to ill and disabled adults. Using large, national data sets we estimate that the national economic value of informal caregiving was $196 billion in 1997. This figure dwarfs national spending for formal home health care ($32 billion) and nursing home care ($83 billion). Estimates for five states also are presented. This study broadens the issue of informal caregiving from the micro level, where individual caregivers attempt to cope with the stresses and responsibilities of caregiving, to the macro level of the health care system, which must find more effective ways to support family caregivers.
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- Authors
- Arno, P. S., Levine, C., & Memmott, M. M.
- Venue
- Health Affairs
- Publisher
- Health Affairs Publishing, LLC
- Published
- 1999-03
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 182-188
- ISSN
- 0278-2715 (ISSN-L)
- 1544-5208
- OpenAlex
- W2152064029
- Cited by
- 676
- References
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- FWCI
- 140.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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