The Potential Impact of Social Prescribing on Meaningful Engagement in Collective Aged Care Settings: Perspectives From the Global South

IF 2 4区 医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Melissa Kilian, Tania Rauch van der Merwe, Itumeleng Tsatsi, Ronelle Jansen, Marieta Visser, Rayne Stroebel, Sanetta Henrietta Johanna du Toit
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Background: Promoting collective care philosophies in residential aged care homes that enhances person-centred care remains a global challenge. More success is evident when an organisation’s approach to care impacts the well-being of everyone who lives and works in the home. However, funding systems are seldom applied in favour of a collective approach. The uptake of social prescribing is potential yet another obstacle in eradicating the prevailing dominance of the medical model of care in aged care homes.

Objective: In the Global South, institutionalised care is becoming a more acceptable and viable option to ensure health and well-being of older adults. Introducing person-centred care philosophies, such as the Eden Alternative (EA), in settings where care approaches are not predetermined by stringent funding schemes (i.e., related to addressing ‘challenging behaviours’ or specifying social prescribing), provides an opportunity to explore the intricacies of collective approaches. This project specifically considered how the EA philosophy impacted the quality of collective care within state-wide organisations in South Africa.

Methods: A qualitative, descriptive research design supported the investigation of four residential aged-care settings in South Africa. Ten focus groups, guided by the nominal group technique, were conducted with 68 participants, including residents, operational staff, and management staff. Quantitative and qualitative findings were deductively analysed using the EA’s domains of well-being as the guiding framework.

Results: The findings mostly indicated agreement between staff and residents on the positive contributions of the EA to support well-being associated with security, autonomy, identity, growth, connectedness, meaning and joy. Overall, security was the most prevalent theme and linked with needs for physical and emotional safety.

Conclusion: Partnerships with external bodies, such as the EA, could support cross-national learning and exchange to support stakeholders working more closely with government agencies in creating realistic and supportive operational and funding policies for collective long-term care settings.

社会处方对集体老年护理环境中有意义的参与的潜在影响:来自全球南方的观点
背景:在安老院推广集体护理理念,加强以人为本的护理,仍然是一个全球性的挑战。当一个组织的护理方法影响到在家中生活和工作的每个人的福祉时,更明显的成功。但是,很少采用有利于集体办法的筹资制度。社会处方的吸收是消除老年护理院医疗模式的普遍统治地位的另一个潜在障碍。目标:在全球南方,机构护理正在成为确保老年人健康和福祉的更可接受和可行的选择。在护理方法不是由严格的资助计划预先确定的环境中(即,与解决“具有挑战性的行为”或指定社会处方有关),引入以人为本的护理哲学,例如伊甸园替代方案(Eden Alternative, EA),为探索集体方法的复杂性提供了机会。该项目特别考虑了EA理念如何影响南非全国性组织内集体护理的质量。方法:采用定性、描述性研究设计,对南非的四家养老院进行调查。在名义小组技术指导下,进行了10个焦点小组,共有68名参与者,包括居民,业务人员和管理人员。定量和定性的发现是演绎法分析使用EA的幸福领域作为指导框架。结果:调查结果大多表明,工作人员和居民对EA的积极贡献达成了一致,这些贡献与安全、自主、身份、成长、连通性、意义和快乐有关。总体而言,安全是最普遍的主题,与身体和情感安全的需求有关。结论:与外部机构(如EA)建立伙伴关系可以支持跨国学习和交流,以支持利益相关者与政府机构更密切地合作,为集体长期护理环境制定现实和支持性的运营和资金政策。
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期刊介绍: Health and Social Care in the community is an essential journal for anyone involved in nursing, social work, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, general practice, health psychology, health economy, primary health care and the promotion of health. It is an international peer-reviewed journal supporting interdisciplinary collaboration on policy and practice within health and social care in the community. The journal publishes: - Original research papers in all areas of health and social care - Topical health and social care review articles - Policy and practice evaluations - Book reviews - Special issues
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