Wages for Caring

Compensating Family Care of the Elderly
Herausgeber: Keigher, Sharon M.; Simon-Rusinowitz, Lori; Linsk, Nathan L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Wages for Caring examines policies and programs of compensation for family caregivers of the disabled elderly from a broad analytical perspective, weighing current policies of home care services against principles of access, equity, quality, and funding of long-term care. Linsk, Keigher, Simon-Rusinowitz, and England challenge widely held assumptions that currently hold the family responsible for care, and accept the government's role in deterring or delaying institutionalization. The authors focus on programs and policies that already exist which could be adjusted to include families and to promote support of family caregiving. In assessing the potential of broad implementation of wages for caring, they contend that if implemented appropriately, family compensation may offer benefits not available through any other kind of service system. First, the authors review incentives to family care and services to families providing home care, and include an overview of attendance allowance and caregiver compensation programs in other developed countries. Next, they present several original studies in an integrated format to allow for the analysis of pros and cons of several compensated family care programs. Third, they examine provisions of Medicaid programs at the state level, as well as provisions of the aging network and their potential to complement family care. The focus is largely on poor clients and families, for whom the burden of care has the most relevant costs in terms of potential government liability. Finally, the authors develop consumer centered criteria to evaluate policy and program provisions, with special attention to the special needs of low-income elderly and their families. Wages for Caring will prove particularly useful to public policymakers, social workers, gerontologists, and researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780275936358
• ISBN-10: 027593635X
• Artikelnr.: 25569093

Autorenporträt

Suzanne R. England, Sharon Keigher, Nathan Linsk, Lori Simon Rusinowitz

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Compensated Family Care for the Elderly in the United States and
Other Nations Care of the Elderly: Shared Responsibilities Policy Contexts
and Dimensions for Compensated Family Care Family Compensation for Care of
the Elderly in Other Nations: Options, Lessons and Evolving Concerns State
Policies Regarding Compensated Family Caregiving in the United States
Policy at Work in Two Statewide Community Care Programs Policy Divergence
in Michigan and Illinois: Home and Community-Based Care Models Agency
Services in Support of Family Caregiving in the Illinois Community Care
Program Compensating Kin for Care: Provider Agency Views of Policies,
Agency Operations, and Impact on Caregivers and Consumers Perspectives of
Illinois Policymakers and Program Administrators Michigan Administrators
View Compensated Family Care: The Adult Home Help Program Consumer
Responses to Compensated Family Care Impacts and Impliations of Wages for
Caring Stakesholders' Perceptions in Compensating Family Care: Whose Life
Is It Anyway? Toward a More Just and Responsive Policy Bibliography Index