The valuation of older adult homecare services under a joint medical-social budgetary perspective
Instrumental homecare can increase hospitalization-free days among community-dwelling older adult and yield significant net system-wide cost savings. Thus, the current study demonstrated the feasibility of data-informed decision-making in system-wide resource allocation under a joint medical-social budget perspective.
Authors
- Eman Leung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8267-1785)
- Frank Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4707-9361)
- Jingjing Guan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9911-2293)
- Y.-J. LIU (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2706-4014)
- Amanda M. Y. Chu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9543-747X)
- Sam C. C. Ching
Institutions
- City University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Education University of Hong Kong (HK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Published
- 2024-12-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1428130
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.13