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The Costs and Benefits of Choice: Family Managers in Directly Funded Home Care

Abstract

Abstract

Directly funded (DF) home care, or consumer directed home care, gives program users a budget to choose their own services. Set in the Canadian province of Manitoba, our study examines the local DF program “Self and Family Managed Care”, which does not allow program users to hire and pay a family member. Incorporating a disability lens into care and aging studies, we share findings from a qualitative study based on 24 semi-structured …

Authors

Dansereau L; Kelly C; Aubrecht K; Grenier A; Williams A

Volume

5

Pagination

pp. 362-362

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Publication Date

December 17, 2021

DOI

10.1093/geroni/igab046.1398

Conference proceedings

Innovation in Aging

Issue

Supplement_1

ISSN

2399-5300