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Willingness to pay for telecare programmes to support independent living: Results from a contingent valuation study

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Title
Willingness to pay for telecare programmes to support independent living: Results from a contingent valuation study
Published in
Social Science & Medicine, November 2014
DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.002
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Aoife Callan, Eamon O'Shea

Abstract

An ageing population provokes an economic interest in the resource allocation questions posed by long-term care and critically, the development of sustainable community-based health and social care models that support independent living. This paper explores Irish citizens preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for a range of community-based care programmes, including different telecare programmes that support older people to continue living at home. The paper reports on a cross-sectional multi-good contingent valuation survey conducted between April and September 2009 with three representative samples of the Irish population (N = 1214) to identify rankings and preferences for different community care programmes including: family care programme, a state-provided care programme and three different telecare programmes. The survey design permits the identification of strength, direction and relative preferences of different forms of community care provision. We also investigate convergent validity between ranking and willingness to pay results. We find that while people place significant value on formal state care provision and on telecare programmes, willingness to pay (WTP) estimates continue to highlight the importance of family care, which remains the strongest preference of the Irish population for the provision of community-based care for older people in the country. Respondents weakened their ranking preferences in the WTP exercise. However, both the direction of ranking and WTP estimates confirm the importance of family care. While all telecare programmes generated some economic value, telecare associated with social connection had much stronger support than telecare used to support physical or cognitive care needs. This paper offers unique information on societal values for different forms of community care provision, and in particular, the direction of preferences for technology-based approaches.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 2%
Unknown 160 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 28 17%
Student > Master 25 15%
Student > Bachelor 16 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 9%
Other 9 5%
Other 28 17%
Unknown 43 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 24 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 13 8%
Psychology 10 6%
Other 34 21%
Unknown 53 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 December 2014.
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#2,075,092
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#38
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