What Quality Paid Home Care Means to Family Caregivers

K. Piercy, G. Dunkley
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The authors investigate the meanings of paid home care for family caregivers to frail older adults, comparing and contrasting what good and poor quality home care means to their caregiving efforts. Semistructured interviews were conducted with caregivers and were analyzed qualitatively, using McCracken’s (1988) five-step method for analysis of long interviews. Data from two studies were combined because of similarities in sample characteristics and interview questions and because data from the second study included both positive and negative experiences with home care providers. The authors find that caregivers perceived that good-quality paid home care facilitated enhanced quality of life for care recipients and improved perceptions of their performances as caregivers. When paid home care was of poor quality, caregivers felt more stress and increased their monitoring of providers. Caregiver circumstances, as well as care recipient needs, should be considered in making decisions about who receives formal home care services.
优质的有偿家庭护理对家庭照顾者意味着什么
作者调查了家庭照顾者对体弱多病的老年人的有偿家庭护理的意义,比较和对比了质量好的和差的家庭护理对他们的护理工作的意义。对照顾者进行半结构化访谈,并使用McCracken(1988)的五步法对长访谈进行定性分析。来自两项研究的数据被合并,因为样本特征和访谈问题相似,因为来自第二项研究的数据包括与家庭护理提供者的积极和消极经历。作者发现,护理人员认为,高质量的有偿家庭护理有助于提高护理对象的生活质量,并改善了他们作为护理人员的表现。当有偿家庭护理质量差时,护理人员感到更大的压力,并增加了对提供者的监督。在决定谁接受正式的家庭护理服务时,应考虑到照顾者的情况以及受照顾者的需要。
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