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| Perspectives of elderly people receiving home help on health, care and quality of life | | Author(s) | Ylva Hellström, I R Hallberg |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 9, no 2, March 2001 |
| Pages | pp 61-71 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Home nursing ; Informal care ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Social surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | The main guiding concept in care of older people in Sweden is to enable them to remain in their own homes for as long as possible. This study of 448 Swedish people aged 75+ living in their own homes investigated their health and quality of life, the help they required and where the help came from. Those dependent on help ranged from 18.5% to 79.1% in the different age groups. Help cam mainly from informal carers (84.1%), and in 53.1% of cases from the home help service and home nursing care. Help from formal caregivers was given in combination with that from a next of kin in 38.8% of the cases. More next of kin than formal carers helped in all instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) and personal activities of daily living (PADL) tasks, with the exception of cleaning the house and providing a bath or shower. Although the respondents received help themselves, they also helped another person in 5% of cases. A median of three diseases and 10 different complaints was reported, of which pain and impaired mobility were the most frequent. Between 20% and 40% in the different age groups reported restricted ability to be alone, and one third reported low or very low quality of life. Multiple linear regression analysis showed the number of complaints, restricted ability to be alone, living alone and age to have a significant relationship on low quality of life. |
| Accession Number | CPA-010511207 A |
| Classmark | N: N4: P6: CC: F:59: 3F: 76P |
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