The relationship of personal budgets with independence, participation and quality of life; a secondary analysis of survey data using propensity score matching.

Objectives: Personal budgets for social and health care have been introduced in many European countries over recent decades. The assumption is that people with a personal budget are able to purchase care that matches their needs more closely and therefore experience greater independence and improved well-being. The question is whether this assumption is true.

Forecasting the use of elderly care: a static micro-simulation model.

This paper describes a model suitable for forecasting the use of publicly funded long-term elderly care, taking into account both ageing and changes in the health status of the population. In addition, the impact of socioeconomic factors on care use is included in the forecasts. The model is also suitable for the simulation of possible implications of some specific policy measures.

More family responsibility, more informal care? The effect of motivation on the giving of informal care by people aged over 50 in the Netherlands compared to other European countries.

Against the backdrop of ongoing population ageing, informal care occupies an important place on European political agendas. This article discusses informal caregiving by middle aged and older persons in the Netherlands and other European countries, with particular emphasis on the role played by motives. The data are drawn from SHARE.

Transitions between care provisions demanded by Dutch elderly.

Unlabelled: We follow people who are considered eligible for an elderly care provision. Through the estimation of a duration model we determine when they can be expected to express demand for another care provision. Data are drawn from the registrations of needs assessment agencies in The Netherlands.

Client demands and the allocation of home care in the Netherlands. A multinomial logit model of client types, care needs and referrals.

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the volume and composition of referrals to home care on the basis of applicant characteristics. The relationships between the background and care needs of applicant groups on the one hand and the referral of home care packages on the other, are studied by means of a multinomial logit model. The model is estimated on the basis of more than 7000 requests for home care in the northern part of the Netherlands.