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| Outcome measures for use with home care clients | | Author(s) | John N Morris, Iain Carpenter, Katherine Berg |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 19, supplement 2, Fall 2000 |
| Pages | pp 87-105 |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Measurement ; Cross national surveys ; Canada ; United States of America ; Japan ; Italy. |
| Annotation | Before the 1990s, most of the research examining outcomes of home care programmes - including efforts at delaying institutional placement, maintaining function, and supporting independence - was atheoretical in character. Outcomes hoped for were often unobserved. New policy developments require comprehensive assessment of need and aggregation of this assessment information. In this paper, a set of proposed functional, behavioural and social outcome measures is described. These outcome measures are germane to evaluating the efficacy of programmatic efforts with the post-acute continuum. Data were collected with a standardized data collection instrument, the Resident Assessment Instrument for Home Care (RAI-HC). The authors provide data summarising these proposed outcomes and evidence of known groups validity in a cross-national sample of home care clients (from Canada, the US, Japan and Italy). Data highlight the differing characteristics of clients across these agencies and provide evidence that this standardized data collection instrument can capture data that is reliable and valid for describing populations and evaluating programme effectiveness. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010219206 A |
| Classmark | KX: KW: LHB: 3R: 3K: 7S: 7T: 7DT: 76V |
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