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KMID : 1124020040200030105
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Korean Social Security Studies
2004 Volume.20 No. 3 p.105 ~ p.143
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Determinants of the caregiving types and costs of family with the demented elderly
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Park Chang-Je
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to analyse determinants of the caregiving types and costs of family with the demented elderly empirically, and then to discuss the findings and implications for the results of analysis. Among collected data for this research, data for 339 primary caregivers were used for this study. The subjects used in this study consisted of family caregivers from various settings that give care to the demented elderly. The 108 subjects were caregivers from home care that family provide most care, the 136 subjects were caregivers utilizing day care programs for the demented elderly, the 71 subjects were caregivers utilizing hospital care, the 71 subjects were caregivers utilizing short term care, and the 7 subjects were caregivers utilizing group home. To explain family caregiving behaviors for demented elderly systematically and rationally, family caregiver`s decision-making models regarding informal care, caregiving cost, formal-care service choice was drawn by an economic model of household production. Taken together, the results of this study suggest that family caregivers do systematically determine and choose the types and costs of caregiving for the demented elderly. They also show that these determinations is influenced by a set of care recipient sociodemographic factors, as well as the household income of caregiving family, the production technology of the care setting, the technology of household production, and the caregiver`s preferences. The policy measures to support families with the dependent elderly need to be designed by considering these research results.
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KEYWORD
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caregiving family with the demented elderly, the types of caregiving, caregiving costs
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