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| Preparation for future care needs by West and East German older adults | | Author(s) | Silvia Sörensen, Martin Pinquart |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 55B, no 6, November 2000 |
| Pages | pp S357-S367 |
| Keywords | Needs [elderly] ; Family care ; Mathematical models ; Germany. |
| Annotation | The authors evaluated a model of the process of preparation for future care needs. The model predicted that fewer concrete preparation activities (e.g. becoming aware and gathering more information) would predict more concrete ones (e.g. deciding on preferences), and that attitudes (expectations of needing care, and negative beliefs about the usefulness of planning) would mediate the effect of vulnerability (age, and ADL or IADL deficits) and resources (socioeconomic status, social network) on preparation activities. The Preparation for Future Care Measure was used to assess two attitudes to preparation, four planning processes, and the content of planning for future care needs, first with a West German sample, and validated with an East German sample. The best fitting path models suggested that more concrete preparation activities were predicted by less concrete ones. Some people may skip steps in the preparation process: for example, where relatives have offered to provide care before the older person has needed to decide options. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010307214 A |
| Classmark | IK: P6:SJ: 3LM: 767 |
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