Compensation for informal care via a care budget
This paper presents a comparison of informal caregivers receiving a monetary compensation via a care budget with those who do not receive compensation for their care tasks, concerning the characteristics of the care situation, caregiver, care burden and practical support. The data used come from the study Informal Help 2007 of Statistics Netherlands and the Netherlands Institute for Social Research. The analyses include 112 compensated and 2336 uncompensated informal caregivers of 18 years and older. Caregivers with an intensive care task are more frequently compensated via a care budget (pgb), similar to caregivers of persons with a development disability or those in need of emotional support, while caregivers of people with dementia are underrepresented. Paid caregivers also make more use of practical support to substitute their caring tasks temporarily. After controlling for variance in practical support, compensation is more frequent in care giving for children and friends. This difference cannot be explained by the severity of the care situation.
Keywords: budgets for care, compensation, informal care, care situation, social relation and practical support