informal caregiver

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meanings of informaland caregiver

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informal
adjective
uk /ɪnˈfɔː.məl/ us /ɪnˈfɔːr.məl/
not formal ...
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caregiver
noun[C]
uk /ˈkeəˌɡɪv.ər/ us /ˈkerˌɡɪv.ɚ/
someone who takes care of a person who is young, old, ill, or disabled (= having an illness, injury, or condition that makes it difficult for them to do some things that other people do), either as a family member or friend, or as ...
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Examples of informal caregiver

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These opportunity costs are set equal to the value of the best alternative use of time by the informalcaregiver.
A major input in the treatment of the patient of an informalcaregiver is time.
This paper focuses on valuation of the care provided by the informalcaregiver in home care in health economic appraisals.
Of the 59 patients, 39 had an informalcaregiver.
Table 2 combines the time the informalcaregiver spent providing care with the time that the patient was enrolled in home care.
Providing informal care may affect the well-being of the informalcaregiver since it involves all kinds of pleasant and unpleasant activities.
Ten percent of the patients with an informalcaregiver had care during the daytime seven days per week.
If quality of life of the informalcaregiver is being measured and included, caution is recommended as double-counting may be a risk.
Travel costs may be important when an informalcaregiver does not live nearby.
Finally, a difference can be observed between members of the same household acting as an informalcaregiver and someone else acting as an informalcaregiver.
The time spent in being an informalcaregiver can naturally vary.
Table 1 illustrates different scenarios for possible changes in work patterns or social patterns as a result of an individual becoming an informalcaregiver.
We have used hourly net salary to estimate the value of time spent caring by the informalcaregiver.
A lengthy illness might cause considerable distress for the informalcaregiver (for instance, reduced performance on paid work).
Such a decision under uncertainty may perhaps be pictured better through a simple decision tree in which the potential informalcaregiver is unaware of the length of the care period.
We believe that indirect costs in the case of advanced home care should be calculated as a production loss for the informalcaregiver as well as the patient.
Sixty-six percent of the patients had an informalcaregiver, most of them for 24 hours every day, and 10 (17%) were younger than 65 years of age.
Sixty-five percent of the patients had an informalcaregiver, either a close relative or significant other, and 70% of those had informal care around the clock.
It seems useful to incorporate these effects of informal care on quality of life of the informalcaregiver in the analysis in terms of quality of life.
It would not be helpful to follow traditional normative approaches without considering the meaning of the condition to each individual with dementia and each informalcaregiver.
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