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| The experience of empowerment in in-home services delivery | | Author(s) | Carol L McWilliam, Catherine Ward-Griffin, Donnabeth Sweetland |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 20, no 4, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 49-72 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Home nursing ; Rights [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this study was to explore the everyday experience of in-home care, with particular attention to the enactment of empowerment in the care partnership. In-depth interviews with a varied sample of clients, informal caregivers and providers uncovered relationships largely reflecting the traditional expert model of care. Findings afford insights into the unrecognised and undervalued personal knowledge of clients, caregivers, and in-home service providers, the professional and structural hegemony and consequent disempowered group behaviour of those who share the experience of care, and the hesitance of clients to engage as equitable partners in care. Strategies to achieve empowerment approaches to in-home health services are identified. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020902203 A |
| Classmark | N3: N4: IKR: 7T |
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