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Yuee Li; Xiaohui Liu – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Home care poverty is the inability of older people to access adequate home care services and their unmet needs for home care. With the increasing number of older adults (60 years old and above) with disability in China, the Chinese government pays more and more attention to home care. In this case, it is of great significance to explore whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Disabilities, Home Programs
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Lamptey, De-Lawrence – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
This study explored the experiences of families in navigating the Ghanaian health system to address the general health needs of their children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The sample involved 22 primary caregivers of children with IDD aged 3-18 years who participated in a semi-structured interview. The interviews were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Health Care, Children, Intellectual Disability
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Balogh, R.; Brownell, M.; Ouellette-Kuntz, H.; Colantonio, A. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2010
Background: There is evidence that persons with an intellectual disability (ID) face barriers to primary care; however, this has not been extensively studied at the population level. Rates of hospitalisation for ambulatory care sensitive conditions are used as an indicator of access to, and quality of, primary care. The objective of the study was…
Descriptors: Health Services, Incidence, Mental Retardation, Diseases