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How much is enough?
— perspectives of care recipients and professionals on the sufficiency of in-home care | | Author(s) | Nancy Morrow-Howell, Enola Proctor, Philip Rozario |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 41, no 6, December 2001 |
| Pages | pp 723-732 |
| Keywords | Discharged patients ; Aftercare ; Quality ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study sought to increase knowledge about the impact of rater role on the assessment of in-home supportive care. The perspectives were compared of care recipients and professionals on one aspect of the broad concept of quality of care in home care: sufficiency of the amount of care provided by informal and formal caregivers. This was assessed by an older person's self-report by telephone interview, and nurse clinical report based on in-home interviews with the older person. Care was assessed in terms of the sufficiency of the amount of informal and formal assistance received to meet functional dependency needs. Comparison by statistical analyses indicated that professional ratings of the sufficiency of care were significantly lower than those of the care recipients. From the perspective of both care recipients and professionals, sufficiency of care was significantly related to co-residence of older person and caregiver, and to caregiver health. Consistent with previous literature, the role of the rater was found to influence the assessment of the sufficiency of in-home care. It should be recognised that care recipient and professional. ratings are not interchangeable. (KJ/RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-020130201 A |
| Classmark | LFD: LN: 59: 4C: 7T |
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