The routine of instrumental activities of daily living is dependent on the living arrangement of the elderly person in the sense that the availability of a co-resident increases the opportunities for sharing the responsibility for the performance of these activities. However, women are at a...

Beginning in 1999, Ontario introduced pay-for-performance incentives for selected preventive primary care services and defined sets of other services provided by family physicians, with the goal of improving the quality of patient care. These performance incentives were considerably expanded in...

Real reforms attempt to change how health care is financed and how it is rationed. Three main explanations have been offered for why such reforms are so difficult: institutional gridlock, path dependency and societal preferences. The latter posits that choices made regarding the health care...