scholarly journals Older adults’ networks and public care receipt: do partners and adult children substitute for unskilled public care?

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (10) ◽  
pp. 1711-1729 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIELS SCHENK ◽  
PEARL DYKSTRA ◽  
INEKE MAAS ◽  
RUBEN VAN GAALEN
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Older People ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Female Partners ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
To Receive

ABSTRACTThis study investigates how (a) the reliance on public care and (b) the type of public care received by older people in the Netherlands depends on the availability of partners and adult children. Older people aged 65 years and older were surveyed in the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study at two time-points. Survey results were linked to registry data on public care receipt at the two time-points. Multilevel models revealed that receiving frequent help in the household from children was not associated with public care receipt. Only men having a partner were less likely to receive public care. Further analyses comparing the receipt of skilled and unskilled forms of public care revealed that female partners are especially important in rendering unskilled care unnecessary compared to skilled care. Two arguments may explain our findings. One is that a gender-bias exists in processing public care requests – men are perceived as less able to provide care to their female partners. Another is that men lack the skills, or perceive themselves as lacking the care skills that female partners have. Caution is advised against introducing policy measures that increase pressure on female partners.

scholarly journals Adult children stepping in? Long-term care reforms and trends in children's provision of household support to impaired parents in the Netherlands

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
THIJS VAN DEN BROEK ◽  
PEARL A. DYKSTRA ◽  
ROMKE J. VAN DER VEEN
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Using Data

ABSTRACTRecent long-term care (LTC) reforms in the Netherlands are illustrative of those taking place in countries with a universalistic LTC model based on extensive provision of state-supported services. They entail a shift from de-familialisation, in which widely available state-supported LTC services relieve family members from the obligations to care for relatives in need, to supported familialism, in which family involvement in care-giving is fostered through support and recognition for families in keeping up their caring responsibilities. Using data from four waves of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (N = 2,197), we show that between 2002 and 2014 the predicted probability that adult children provide occasional household support to impaired parents rose substantially. Daughters more often provided household support to parents than did sons, but no increase in the gender gap over time was found. We could not attribute the increase in children's provision of household support to drops in the use of state-supported household services. The finding that more and more adult children are stepping in to help their ageing parents fits a more general trend in the Netherlands of increasing interactions in intergenerational families.

scholarly journals Fall Prevention in Dutch Physician Practices: A Descriptive Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 235-235
Author(s):  
Wytske Meekes ◽  
C J Leemrijse ◽  
J C Korevaar ◽  
L A M van de Goor
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Older People ◽  
Fall Prevention ◽  
Fear Of Falling ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Frail Older People ◽  
Physician Practices ◽  
Important Health ◽  
Underlying Causes

Abstract Falls are an important health threat among frail older people. Physicians are often the first to contact for health issues and can be seen as designated professionals to provide fall prevention. However, it is unknown what they exactly do and why regarding fall prevention. This study aims to describe what physicians in the Netherlands do during daily practice in regards to fall prevention. About 65 physicians (34 practices) located throughout the Netherlands were followed up for 12 months. When a physician entered specific ICPC-codes related to frailty and falls in the Hospital Information System, the physician received a pop-up asking if the patient is frail. If so, the physician subsequently completed a questionnaire. The physicians completed 1396 questionnaires. More than half (n=726) of the patients had experienced a fall in the previous year and/or had a fear of falling (FOF) and 37% of these patients received fall prevention. Physicians did not know of 20% of the patients if they had experienced a fall and of 29% of the patients if they had a FOF. The three most often treated underlying causes were mobility problems, FOF and cardiovascular risk factors. The results show that physicians are not always aware of a patient’s fall history and/or FOF and that only part of these patients receives fall prevention. Hence, it might be important to develop and implement strategies for systematic fall risk screening and fall prevention provision in the primary care setting to reduce falls among frail older people.

scholarly journals The impact of living arrangements and intergenerational support on the health status of older people in China: are rural residents disadvantaged compared to urban residents?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Yazhen Yang ◽  
Maria Evandrou ◽  
Athina Vlachantoni
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Older People ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Research to-date has examined the impact of intergenerational support in terms of isolated types of support, or at one point in time, failing to provide strong evidence of the complex effect of support on older persons’ wellbeing. Using the Harmonised China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011, 2013 and 2015), this paper investigates the impact of older people's living arrangements and intergenerational support provision/receipt on their physical and psychological wellbeing, focusing on rural–urban differences. The results show that receiving economic support from one's adult children was a stronger predictor for higher life satisfaction among rural residents compared to urban residents, while grandchild care provision was an important determinant for poor life satisfaction only for urban residents. Having weekly in-person and distant contact with one's adult children reduced the risk of depression in both rural and urban residents. Older women were more likely than men to receive support and to have contact with adult children, but also to report poor functional status and depression. The paper shows that it is important to improve the level of public economic transfers and public social care towards vulnerable older people in rural areas, and more emphasis should be placed on improving the psychological wellbeing of urban older residents, such as with the early diagnosis of depression.

scholarly journals The Reciprocal Longitudinal Relationship between Executive Dysfunction and Happiness in Korean Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 7764
Author(s):  
Yoonhee Sung ◽  
Eunsil Choi
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Executive Dysfunction ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Lagged Effects ◽  
Reciprocal Influences ◽  
Longitudinal Relationships

The goal of this study was to examine the reciprocal longitudinal relationships between executive dysfunction and happiness for Korean children. We used data from the Panel Study of Korean Children (PSKC) conducted by the Korean Institute of Child Care and Education. A total of 1240 valid responses from the first to third grade in elementary school were analyzed using autoregressive crossed-lagged modeling. As a result, executive dysfunction and happiness were found to have reciprocal influences over the three time points. We also found that the cross-lagged effects of executive dysfunction and happiness were stronger than those of happiness on executive dysfunction. Clinical implications and limitations were discussed.

Infants born before 32 weeks of gestation or with respiratory disease are most likely to receive palivizumab in the Netherlands

2015 ◽  
Vol 104 (9) ◽  
pp. 927-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne M.A. Kool-Houweling ◽  
Fernie J.A. Penning-van Beest ◽  
Irene D. Bezemer ◽  
Richard A. van Lingen ◽  
Ron M.C. Herings
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Respiratory Disease ◽  
To Receive

Medical services for older people in nursing homes — Comparing services in England and The Netherlands

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 559-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Conroy ◽  
T. Cammen ◽  
J. Schols ◽  
R. Balen ◽  
P. Peteroff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Older People ◽  
Medical Services

scholarly journals The Role of Education and Knowledge about Aging in Creating Young People’s Attitudes to the Elderly

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Goriup ◽  
Danijela Lahe
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Older People ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
School Students ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Intergenerational Cooperation

AbstractIntroduction: With the intensive growth in the number of older people and prolonged life span in the contemporary postmodern society, it has become increasingly important to build positive intergenerational cooperation and promote education on aging and older people, especially between younger and older generations. That is why the authors, on the basis of empirical research and scientific literature, examined knowledge about aging among young people and the connection between knowledge about aging and the formation of negative attitudes towards older people.Methods: The study involved 609 secondary school students aged 15 to 19 years.Results: The survey results showed that only one-fifth of the young population has good knowledge about aging. The relationship between knowledge about aging and ageism is negative, which means that young people with less knowledge about aging often have a negative attitude towards older people.Conclusions: Based on the obtained results, the authors underline the importance of integrating gerontology content in all stages of education.

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