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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.

Arno, Peter S., Levine, Carol, Memmott, Margaret M.·1999·Health Affairs
DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.18.2.182
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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
DOI
10.1377/hlthaff.18.2.182
OpenAlex
W2152064029
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676
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140.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
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