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Custodial Care

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Board and care; Nonmedical care; Residential care and non-skilled care

Definition

Custodial care refers to nonmedical care that helps individuals with their daily basic needs, such as dressing, eating, and bathing (Kagan 2017). Custodial care is provided by family members and nonmedical professionals such as personal care aides and nursing assistants.

Overview

Due to disease, mental illness, and frailty, older adults will lose the capacity to perform activities of daily living (ADL) such as eating, using the toilet, bathing, getting dressed or out of bed, and moving around on their own (Amerigroup Real Solutions in Healthcare 2018). The needed help with ADL typically does not require skilled care (See “Skilled Care”) and can be provided by caregivers with no medical or nursing training, who can be family members or paid care aides (See “Formal/Informal Care”). Recipients of such assistance are said to be in custodial care. Differing from skilled care, custodial care is not...

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  1. School of Social Work, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Fei Sun & Jaewon Lee

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  1. Population Division, UN Dept of Economic Social Affairs Population Division, New York, NY, USA

    Danan Gu

  2. Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Matthew E. Dupre

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  1. Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

    Xue Bai

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Sun, F., Lee, J. (2019). Custodial Care. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_845-1

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