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The Impact of a Spouse-Caregiver Support Group on Care Recipient Health Care Costs

Terry Peak, PhD

Utah State University

Ronald W. Toseland, PhD

State University of New York at Albany

Steven M. Banks, PhD

New York State Office of Mental Health

Frail elderly veterans who received care at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center and whose spouse-caregivers participated in support groups to which they had been randomly assigned had lower health care costs over a 1-year period than did control participants. The greatest impact was observed for participants perceived by their spouse-caregivers to be in the poorest health. What is important to consider about this result in terms of health care policymaking is that support groups targeted for spouse-caregivers of elderly veterans in poor health produced significant outpatient, inpatient, and total cost savings for the care recipients, and were cost effective.

Journal of Aging and Health, Vol. 7, No. 3, 427-449 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/089826439500700306
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