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Understanding the Relationship between Income Status and the Restrictions in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living among Disabled Older Adults
Raina, Parminder; Wong, Micheline - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2002
elderly population. In an aging population, strategies of the health care system and other sectors are needed to counter low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635170
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Disability Related Sources of Income and Expenses: An Examination Among the Elderly in Canada
Raina, Parminder; Dukeshire, Steven; Denton, Margaret; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1999
The primary purpose of this paper is to examine disability-related sources of income and expenses among high and low income older Canadians. Specifically, the paper attempts to answer three questions: Do low and high income seniors experience disability equally? Do low and high income seniors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635175
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Use of Medicines by Community Dwelling Elderly in Ontario
Ballantyne, Peri J.; Marshman, Joan A.; Clarke, Philippa J. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2003
OBJECTIVE: Prescription medicine use by the elderly is of growing concern as indicated by a large literature focused on … medicines used by the elderly, who have increasing access to non-prescription medicines and natural health products. The … objective of this paper is to describe overall medicine use among the elderly in Ontario. METHODS: Using the National Population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635197
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The Private Cost of Long-Term Care in Canada: Where You Live Matters
Fernandes, Natasha; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2010
Canadians expect the same access to health care whether they are rich or poor, and wherever they live, often without … direct charge at the point of service. However, we find that the private cost of long-term care differs greatly across the … in Quebec, while a couple with one in care would pay almost four times as much in Newfoundland as in Alberta. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693063
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Some Demographic Consequences of Revising the Definition of 'Old' to Reflect Future Changes in Life Table Probabilities
Denton, Frank T.; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2000
Sixty-five has long been used to define the beginning of 'old age'. Yet it is clear that the definition is arbitrary, and with continuing reductions in mortality and morbidity rates it will become increasingly inappropriate as time passes. We consider how the definition might be modified to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763319
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An Application of Price and Quantity Indexes in the Analysis of Changes in Expenditures on Physician Services
Denton, Frank T.; Feaver, Christine H.; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2008
Price and quantity indexes are applied in the analysis of expenditure on physician services in the province of Ontario, Canada, using newly available data files for 1992 and 2004. Price indexes for such services are found to have increased less rapidly than indexes of general inflation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763298
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A Longitudinal Study of the Residential Mobility of the Elderly in Canada
Ostrovsky, Yuri - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2002
longitudinal Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) to investigate the factors influencing elderly households … residential mobility of the elderly appears to be affected mostly by moving costs, which are different for owners and non-owners. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763276
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Families as Care-Providers versus Care-Managers? Gender and Type of Care in a Sample of Employed Canadians
Rosenthal, Carolyn J.; Martin-Mathews, Anne - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1999
This article extends previous research by examining care management as a distinct type of informal care. Using data … activity among caregivers and usually involves aspects of care other than arranging for formal services. Managerial care has an … men (805) who were employed full-time and who had provided help to an elderly relative during the six month period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181069
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Cohort Survival Analysis is Not Enough: Why Local Planners Need to Know More About the Residential Mobility of the Elderly
Hayward, Lynda M.; Lazarowich, N. Michael - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2001
The residential mobility choices of the elderly (aging-in-place, local moves, or migration) have very different policy … particularly sensitive to local context. These include competing models of care and service delivery, provision of appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005404405
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Car Driving and Public Transit Use in Canadian Metropolitan Areas: Focus on Elderly and Role of Health and Social Network Factors
Mercado, Ruben G.; Newbold, K. Bruce - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009
characteristics, with a focus on the elderly population. The study exploits Statistics Canada’s General Social Survey (GSS-19), a … stronger among the elderly than the non-elderly group. However, in the event of voluntary driving cessation, suspension of … caregivers could be critical given that, and as this study finding showed, elderly people are likely to continue to strive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005404428