Table of contents

  • Preliminary material 
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary
  • Body section
    1. Introduction
      • 1.1 Background and hypotheses
        • Residential respite care
        • Study hypotheses
      • 1.2 Data
        • Study groups
      • 1.3 Methods
        • Cross tabulations
        • Logistic regression modelling
        • The models
      • 1.4 Structure of report
    2. Profile of study groups
      • 2.1 Locality
      • 2.2 Age and sex
      • 2.3 Health conditions
      • 2.4 Client care needs
        • Instrumental activities of daily living (IADL)
        • Activities of daily living (ADL)
      • 2.5 Care
        • Carer availability
        • Sources of care
      • 2.6 Time to death
    3. Use of residential respite care
      • 3.1 Time to take-up
        • Possible reasons for the low usage rate for those with carers
      • 3.2 Length of stay
      • 3.3 Program use after reference assessment
        • Movement from residential respite care to permanent residential care
    4. Factors affecting take-up of residential respite care
      • 4.1 Take-up among people recommended to live in the community (Group 1)
        • Results
        • Conclusions
      • 4.2 Take-up among people recommended to live in residential care (Group 2)
        • Results
        • Conclusions
    5. Factors affecting admission into permanent residential care
      • 5.1 Analysis
        • Results
        • Conclusions
  • End matter 
    • Appendix A: Logistic regression models and results
      • A.1 The model
        • Testing model assumptions
        • Model checking
      • A.2 Predicted probabilities
      • A.3 Odds ratios
      • A.4 Model 1: factors affecting take-up of residential respite care recommended to live in the community
      • A.5 Model 2: factors affecting take-up of residential respite care recommended to live in residential care
      • A.6 Model 3: factors affecting admission into permanent residential care
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of boxes 
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