Informal care trajectories
Developments in Care Demands, Intensity and Complexity Over the Course of Care Episodes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6429103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen Verbakel (0000-0003-1022-9020, Radboud University Nijmegen), Rosa Glijn (Verwey Jonker Institute) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 134-162 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Care and Caring (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2397-8821 • E-ISSN: 2397-883X |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/23978821y2023d000000021 |
| OpenAlex | W4390317111 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
In response to the dominant narrative that informal care episodes become increasingly heavy over time, this study empirically identifies distinct informal care trajectories in terms of developments in care demands (care receivers’ health), intensity (number of hours) and complexity (number and type of tasks) over the course of a care episode. Latent class analysis on 5,595 informal care episodes among 2,884 Dutch carers identified a ‘stable trajectory’ (41 per cent) and ‘decrease trajectory’ (22 per cent) apart from an ‘increase trajectory’ (37 per cent). The trajectories were related to care receivers’ characteristics (age), carers’ difficulty of saying ‘no’ (relationship and obligation) and changes in the care context (living situation
Class (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Linguistics · Narrative · Obligation · Political science · Trajectory · Computer Science · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Social science in medicine
Family Caregiving for Older Adults
PoLCA
Help Wanted
The positive effects of caring for family carers of older adults
Life course trajectories of family care
Family care work
Determinants of informal care‐giving in various social relationships in the Netherlands
Caregiving and the Stress Process
The pains and reliefs of the transitions into and out of spousal caregiving. A cross-national comparison of the health consequences of caregiving by gender
Latent Class Analysis
Logistic Regression
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |