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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST GcPR0xyA. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Context Projected demographic shifts in the US population over the next 50 years will cause families, health care practitioners, and policymakers to confront a marked increase in the number of people with disabilities living in the community. Concerns about the adequacy of community support are particularly salient to women, who make up a disproportionate number of disabled elderly people and who may be particularly vulnerable because they are more likely to live alone with limited financial resources. Objective To address gender differences in receipt of informal and formal home care. Design, Setting, and Participants Nationally representative survey conducted in 1993 among 7443 noninstitutionalized people (4538 women and 2905 men) aged 70 years or older. Main Outcome Measure Number of hours per week of informal (generally unpaid) and formal (generally paid) home care received by survey participants who reported any activity of daily living (ADL) or instrumental activity of daily living (IADL) impairment (n=3109) compared by gender and living arrangement and controlling for other factors. Results Compared with disabled men, disabled women were much more likely to be living alone (45.4% vs 16.8%, P<. and much less likely to be living with a spouse vs p overall women received fewer hours of informal care per week than men confidence interval cl>
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