Caring and Disability in Long-Stay Institutions

Eamon O'Shea and Peter Murray (eamon.oshea@nuigalway.ie)
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Peter Murray: Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway

No 2, Working Papers from National University of Ireland Galway, Department of Economics

Abstract: The paper investigates the empirical relationship between the dependency characteristics of elderly residents and the amount of care provided by health care professionals in a selected number of long-stay institutions in Ireland. The results confirm a positive, if not always significant, re;ationship between care provision and increasing dependency on a Guttman, activities of daily living-based scale of disability. The relationship between care provision and increasing severity on other dimensions of disability is not always positive. Type of institution also influences the provision of care hours by category of dependency.

JEL-codes: I12 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 1995, Revised 1995
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Published in the Economic and Social Review, Vol. 28, No.1, 1997

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