Caregiver Needs and Formal Long-Term Care Service Utilization in the Andersen Model: An Individual-Participant Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

This study aimed to (i) provide precision on the existence, magnitude, and direction of the relationship between informal caregiver needs – burden, health status and depression, and formal long-term care service (LTCS) utilization, (ii) provide evidence to support caregiver training programmes, and (iii) propose a new model of factors for formal LTCS utilization.