Caregivers’ Preferences for Alleviating Burden of Long-term Care of Japanese Elderly at Home

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Preferences to alleviate the burden imposed on caregivers by caring for the elderlyhave not been investigated due to features that cannot be directly observed. Weconducted choice experiments (CE) on the attributes of care services provided tothe elderly at home throughout Japan to estimate caregivers’ preferences for careplans.The caregivers prefer care plans that consist of more formal care and day-timeservices, while less time should be spent in care by the family. Care payments shouldalso be made weekly. We also found that caregivers reached a consensus that therewas excessive burden imposed when family members were involved in informal longtermcare since their heterogeneity of preferences was more moderate than that ofcaregivers who were not supported by family members.We found that we should takeinto consideration the implementation of certain compensation schemes to alleviatethe burden imposed on family members. We suggest some example compensationschemes from overseas that are suited to the Japanese situation.