For Love or Money: Care Provision in the United States

Index

/ 269 Index Boldface numbers refer to figures and tables. AAAs (area agencies on aging), 133, 137 AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), 105, 149, 190, 203. See also Caregiving in the U.S. survey Abel, Emily, 6 Accounting for Tastes (Becker), 37–38n7 ACS (American Community Survey). See American Community Survey (ACS) activities of daily living (ADLs): assistance with, 48, 132; disability definition , 45; needs assessments, 11–12; prevalence of those unable to perform, 13; survey disability scales, 212–13; survey question importance, 221 ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), 208 adequacy of care policy. See disparate impacts of care policy ADLs (activities of daily living ). See activities of daily living (ADLs) Administration on Aging, 133 adoption, 125–26, 163 Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), 125, 126 Adoption Tax Credit, 125–26 adult care, paid, 80–87; definitions of, 11, 80; demand for, 70; government expenditures , 136, 137; income disparities in access, 148–49; industry, 80–82; job growth, 70; job quality, 83–88, 188; job training, 86; job turnover, 85–87; joint production , 226; occupations, 80, 82; policy issues, 114, 131–36; public financing, 80, 132, 134–36; quality of care, 83–87; recipients, 46–47, 114–15, 132, 137; state-bystate variation in access to services, 171–78; worker characteristics, 68–69, 71, 73–74, 83, 84; worker motivations , 86–87; workforce development programs, 88. See also home-andcommunity -based care services; nursing homes adult care, unpaid, 13–14, 45–49, 193–94 adult children, care responsibilities , 3, 25, 45, 46, 47–48 adult foster care, xiii adults with disabilities: age of onset of disability, 13; care needs, 11, 13–14, 45–49, 211–14; care preferences, xii–xiii; statistics, 45, 132; stigmatization of, 9; time diary data, 216–17; unpaid care of, 45–57, 193–94. See also adult care, paid advocacy, 25 Affordable Healthcare for Americans Act (2009), 203 African Americans: adult care work, 83, 84; care industry employment, 66; child care work, 77; children’s special health care needs, 12–13; HIV, 48; interactive care work, 67–69, 68, 73–74; low-paid care work, 4; out-ofwedlock births, 43; unpaid care work, 61, 62 AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees), 79 age, average of care workers, 68, 77, 84 age differences: in care needs, 10; in time spent providing unpaid care, 54–55 agency, 35–36 aging of population, 70, 184 Agriculture Department, 201 AHEAD (Assets and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old), 219 Akerlof, George, 34 Alabama: care policy, 179–80 Alaska: care policy generosity, 179–80 Albelda, Randy, 221, 224, 225 Alecxih, Lisa Maria B., 219 Alic, John, 195 altruism: costs of, 32–33; definition of, 7; examples of, 24; future research needs, 200; gender differences, 31; groups’ role in, 29; natural selection role, 26 Alzheimer’s disease, 45, 57–58 American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 105, 149, 190, 203. See also Caregiving in the U.S. survey American Community Survey (ACS): adults with disabilities , 132; children with disabilities, 138n5; description of, 225; disability measures , 212–13; grandparent caregivers, 45; household worker tax compliance, 74 American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), 79 American Health Care Association, 199 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), 189–90 American Social and Economic Supplement (ASES), 225 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 208 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS), 50–57, 62–63, 96–97, 104, 215 area agencies on aging (AAAs), 133, 137 ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), 189–90 ASES (American Social and Economic Supplement), 225 270 / Index CAPTA (Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act), 125, 126 care bots, 70, 188–89 care density, 104 career academies, 196 career ladders, 88 caregivers: characteristics of, 47, 68–69, 70–75, 76, 77, 83, 84; health impact, 59–60; “ideal,” 6; potential caregivers for elderly persons needing care, 47. See also motivations for care work; specific caregivers Caregiving in the U.S. survey: description of, 219–20; gender differences in unpaid care need, 47; hours of caregiving , 49, 64n7; informal caregivers, 47; racial-ethnic difference in caregiving, 61; stress and financial hardship of caregiving, 45; unpaid child care, 49 care intensity, 226 care movement, 187 care needs assessments, 1, 11–12, 190, 211–14 care valuation, 92–111; future research needs, 202; introduction, xvi, 92–93; measurement of unpaid work, 93–99; monetary value assigned to unpaid care, 99–107; policy agenda, 193–94; public benefits of care provision, 107–10 care work: costs of, 32–33, 184–85, 187...