Observational studyHealth economics2018
The impact of long-term care on quality of life.
Observational study in Health economics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Does long-term care insurance affect labor supply? Empirical evidence from China.International journal of health economics and management · 2026Article
- The benefits and costs of domiciliary care: a study protocol for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of domiciliary care in England.BMJ open · 2026Article
- The mental health implications of informal care receipt stability among older adults with persistent care needs.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Observational
- Use of the adult social care outcomes toolkit (ASCOT) in research studies: an international scoping review.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- There Is No Place Like Home: The Impact of Public Home-Based Care on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Older People.Health economics · 2025Article
- Unpacking the care-related quality of life effect of England's publicly funded adult social care. A panel data analysis.Health economics · 2025Article
- Quality of life outcomes for informal carers of long-term care service users in Austria, England and Finland.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- The Impact of Wages on Care Home Quality in England.The Gerontologist · 2023Article
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- Well-being right before and after a permanent nursing home admission.Health economics · 2022Article
- The quality of life of older carers and the people they support: An international scoping review.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Social care-related quality of life of people with dementia and their carers in England.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Causal impact of social care, public health and healthcare expenditure on mortality in England: cross-sectional evidence for 2013/2014.BMJ open · 2021Article
- The impact of long-term care on quality of life.Health economics · 2018Observational
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Abstract
Long-term care services are provided to help people manage the consequences of impairment, but their impact goes beyond the meeting of basic needs. Accordingly, the main aim was to explore the marginal effectiveness of care when measured in terms of people's overall care-related quality of life (CRQoL) and assess changes in marginal effect for increasing intensity. The associated aim was to refine and apply an observational method to estimate marginal effectiveness. A "production function" approach was used with survey data, including Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit-measured CRQoL, whereby we statistically modelled the expected relationship between service utilisation rates and CRQoL. This method seeks to limit endogeneity issues by controlling on observables and using instrumental variable. Using a survey of publicly funded long-term care service users in England, we found that community-based long-term care significantly improved people's CRQoL but with diminishing marginal effects and effects differentiated by baseline impairment levels. There are implications for how the care system should respond to changes in global public budgets. For example, where there is unmet need, a system aimed to maximise (unadjusted) CRQoL would put more emphasis on access (more recipients) than intensity of support compared to a system operating on a needs basis.
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