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Relationships between various forms of care – especially between informal (unpaid) and formal (paid) care (See “Formal/Informal Care”) – have long interested researchers, policy makers, and service providers. This is particularly so in the long-term care context – that is, care for individuals with a chronic illness or disability requiring assistance to meet health, social, and/or personal care needs (Banerjee 2009), whether in their own homes (e.g., through home care services) or in other settings (e.g., the community, assisted living facilities, nursing homes). In large part, this reflects concerns regarding how to address the increasing health care needs of an aging population. These concerns have generated longstanding debate over whether the informal care...
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Penning, M.J. (2019). Self, Informal, and Formal Long-Term Care: The Interface. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_24-1
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