Title
Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Examine Social Service Needs Among Hispanic Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia.
Abstract
We applied machine learning algorithms to examine the relationship between demographics and outcomes of the social work services used by Hispanic family caregivers of persons with dementia recruited for a clinical trial in New York City. The social work service needs were largely concentrated on instrumental support to gain access to the healthcare system rather than other concrete services (e.g., housing or food programs) or to address psychological needs among the caregivers with relatively higher income. A finding from the machine learning approach was that among those who receive medical-related social work services, frequent users (≥10 times) with high family friend support(>4) were more likely than frequent users without such support to have their issues resolved (Accuracy: 81.9%, AUC: 0.82, F-measure: 0.86 by J48). Even though half of the participants received social work services multiple times, the needs of the caregivers remained unmet unless they sought social work services frequently (more than ten times).
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3233/SHTI220776
International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology in Healthcare (ICIMTH)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
aging,dementia caregiving,disparities,machine learning,social work
Conference
295
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1879-8365
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
11