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The psychosocial preferences of older adults
— a pilot examination of content and structure | | Author(s) | Brian D Carpenter, Kimberly Van Haitsma, Katy Ruckdeschel |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 3, June 2000 |
| Pages | pp 327-334 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Informal care ; Management [care] ; Attitude ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Pilot ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Individualising care for older people depends on knowing about a care recipient's psychosocial preferences. However, there are as yet no comprehensive, empirically derived instruments to assess these preferences. As part of an effort to develop such an instrument, this pilot study examined the content and structure of older people's psychosocial preferences using a statistical technique known as concept mapping. Results suggest two underlying dimensions to psychosocial preferences: enrichment and self-maintenance; and extrapersonal-intrapersonal. Six distinct contexts were also identified: social contact; growth activities; leisure activities; self-dominion; support aids; and caregivers and care. Both dimensions and contexts provide valuable information for the construction of psychosocial preference instruments. They might also assist formal and informal caregivers in tailoring their interventions to provide individualised care that enhances older people's quality of life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000717232 A |
| Classmark | N: P6: QA: DP: F: 4C: 4UC: 7T |
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