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| Research on home care utilization: a critical analysis of the pre-eminent approach | | Author(s) | Eileen Jones Porter |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 14, no 1, March 2000 |
| Pages | pp 25-38 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Usage [services] ; Methodology ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In research on utilisation of home care, many researchers have employed epidemiological methods to test the Andersen model of health service use. The Andersen model was designed to explain why families use health services. Focused on population risk factors rather than individual behaviours, epidemiological tests of the Andersen model have not yielded an empirically valid construct of home care need. Tests of relationships among such constructs have not produced conclusive predictions of use. Analysing changes in use have been thwarted in part because prospective longitudinal designs have seldom been employed. Using these basic arguments, this critique of the epidemiological study of home care utilisation is presented as a rationale for descriptive phenomenological study of the experience of home care. A phenomenological perspective on the three problems of complexity is discussed, as it is being implemented in a study of older widows' experience of home care. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000522249 A |
| Classmark | N: QLD: 3D: 7T |
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