How does long‐term care impact the psychological wellbeing of older adults in different care policy contexts in the Netherlands?: A comparison of 1998, 2008 and 2018.
| Autor: | Abbing, Jens, Suanet, Bianca, Broese van Groenou, Marjolein |
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WELL-being
HEALTH policy HEALTH services accessibility ANALYSIS of variance FUNCTIONAL status REGRESSION analysis PSYCHOLOGICAL tests PHYSICAL mobility DESCRIPTIVE statistics CHI-squared test RESEARCH funding CENTER for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale LONG-term health care MEDICAL needs assessment LONGITUDINAL method |
| Zdroj: | Health & Social Care in the Community; Sep2022, Vol. 30 Issue 5, pe2750-e2760, 11p |
| Abstrakt: | Receipt of long‐term care (LTC) is generally associated with worse psychological wellbeing for community‐dwelling older adults. In addition to objective features of care use (e.g. formal vs. informal care), the subjective evaluation of care provision in terms of perceived sufficiency might be particularly predictive of one's wellbeing but is seldomly considered in the literature. Substantial changes in the availability of long‐term care in past decades raise the question to what extent these effects, if present, are consistent over historic time. The present study, therefore, aims at better understanding the associations between types of LTC use and perceived care sufficiency on psychological wellbeing in a changing LTC context in the Netherlands. Data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) were used from three points in time: 1998 (N = 582), 2008 (N = 459) and 2018 (N = 415). At each wave, participants were between 75 and 85 years of age and living independently. The results show that after adjusting for age, gender, education and health, using formal LTC had a negative effect on depressive symptoms only in 2018, but that this effect was not significantly worse compared to previous cohorts. Perceived care sufficiency was consistently negatively associated with depressive symptoms in all three points in time. This suggests that despite a less generous Dutch LTC system, psychological wellbeing among LTC users remains stable. Perceiving care provision as sufficient, however, can help older adults maintain psychological wellbeing and should be considered by researchers and policymakers that aim to improve care recipients' wellbeing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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