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Family Caregiving in the New Normal || Informal Care and Economic Stressors11In this chapter, I use the term informal care because it is a standard term used in the academic literature. The term is intended to distinguish care from family members and friends, who are typically untrained and unpaid, from formal care, in which care is provided by paid, and usually trained, semiprofessionals or professionals who have no preexisting personal relationship with the care recipient. An alternative term is family caregiver, but I prefer the term informal caregiver because it does not exclude care provided by nonfamily members. In addition, the word informal reflects the reality that caregiving in the United States typically occurs in an informal mar

Van Houtven, Courtney Harold
Year:
2015
Language:
english
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english, 2015
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Informal care and health care use of older adults

Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Edward C. Norton
Journal:
Journal of Health Economics
Year:
2004
Language:
english
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PDF, 156 KB
english, 2004
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Informal Care and Caregiver's Health

Do, Young Kyung, Norton, Edward C., Stearns, Sally C., Van Houtven, Courtney Harold
Journal:
Health Economics
Year:
2015
Language:
english
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PDF, 119 KB
english, 2015
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Inter-Vivos Transfers and Exchange

Edward C. Norton and Courtney Harold Van Houtven
Journal:
Southern Economic Journal
Year:
2006
Language:
english
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PDF, 2.06 MB
english, 2006