Costs and Benefits of Home Care versus Assisted Living Facilities
Costs and Benefits of Home Care versus Assisted Living Facilities for Frail Elderly: A Scoping Review
Project Status:In progress
Knowledge User(s)
Patient and Public Partner
Project Trainee(s)
Smita Roy
Collaborator(s)
Dr. Margaret McGregor, Mimi Doyle-Waters
Funding Source(s)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance
Project Objectives
To provide insight into the relative costs of caring for frail elderly at home in comparison to care received in long term care facilities in order to shed light on the substantial cost of care borne by patients and their families in caring for frail elderly at home.
Research Approach
Scoping Review
Project Lead(s)
Jenny Arntzen
Dr. Jenny Arntzen received her PhD in Education from the University of British Columbia in 2016. Her research investigated the formation of professional communities of practice in teacher education with regards to engagement with digital technologies. She is a certified Project Management Professional with a systems development certification as a Citizen Developer. Her current research interest is in improving socio-economic outcomes for family caregivers.
Jenny Arntzen
Patient Partner
Dr. Jenny Arntzen received her PhD in Education from the...
Craig Mitton
Dr. Mitton is a Professor in the School of Population and Public Health and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation. Dr. Mitton’s research is focused on the application of health economics to impact health policy and to inform clinical practice. He has worked extensively with health authorities in numerous countries on the development and implementation of priority setting and resource allocation processes.
He is the lead author on a book titled “The Priority Setting Toolkit: a guide to the use of economics in health care priority setting” and is the lead or co-author on more than 170 peer reviewed journal articles. In addition, he has delivered over 200 presentations across many different countries and regularly runs workshops and short courses on health economics and health care priority setting.
In 2015, he was awarded a Killam Teaching Prize from the University of British Columbia.
Craig Mitton
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
Dr. Mitton is a Professor in the School of Population...
Project Outputs
In Progress