Raiber Klara, Verbakel Ellen, de Boer Alice
Radboud University in Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Eur J Ageing. 2022 Jun 22;19(4):1287-1300. doi: 10.1007/s10433-022-00713-2. eCollection 2022 Dec.
Informal care, meaning taking health-related care of people in their own social network, is a topic that gets more and more attention in social science research because the pressure on people to provide informal care is rising due to ageing societies and policy changes. The developed by Broese van Groenou and de Boer (Eur J Ageing 13(3):271-279, 2016) provides a theoretical foundation to understand under what conditions a person provides informal care. We test this theoretical model by applying it to intrapersonal changes in informal care provision during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the Netherlands in Spring 2020. Data from the LISS panel from two time points, March 2020 and data from July over the period of April/May 2020, were analysed with multinominal multilevel regression analysis ( = 1270 care situations of 1014 caregivers). Our results showed that the individual determinants ( and especially ) discussed in the Informal Care Model (apart from a series of control variables) are contributing substantially to the understanding of intrapersonal changes in care provision during the first lockdown and by that, we found empirical support for the theoretical model. We conclude that on top of its original purpose to explain between-individual differences in informal caregiving using static indicators, the is also useful to explain intrapersonal changes in informal caregiving using dynamic indicators.
非正式照料，即对自身社交网络中的人们提供与健康相关的照料，是社会科学研究中越来越受关注的一个话题，因为老龄化社会和政策变化使得人们提供非正式照料的压力不断上升。Broese van Groenou和de Boer（《欧洲老龄化杂志》，13(3):271 - 279，2016年）提出的[相关理论或模型名称未给出，暂用“ ”指代]为理解一个人在何种条件下提供非正式照料提供了理论基础。我们通过将其应用于2020年春季荷兰首次新冠疫情封锁期间非正式照料提供的个体内部变化来检验这一理论模型。对LISS面板在两个时间点的数据进行了分析，即2020年3月以及2020年4月/5月期间7月的数据，采用多项多水平回归分析（涉及1014名照料者的1270种照料情况）。我们的结果表明，非正式照料模型中讨论的个体决定因素（尤其是[此处具体因素未给出，暂用“ ”指代]）（除一系列控制变量外）在很大程度上有助于理解首次封锁期间照料提供的个体内部变化，由此，我们为该理论模型找到了实证支持。我们得出结论，除了其最初使用静态指标解释非正式照料个体间差异的目的外，[相关理论或模型名称未给出，暂用“ ”指代]对于使用动态指标解释非正式照料的个体内部变化也很有用。
