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Angels of the night
— evening and night patrols for homebound elders in Sweden | | Author(s) | Bo Malmberg, Marie Ernsth, Birgitta Larsson |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 43, no 5, October 2003 |
| Pages | pp 761-765 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Housebound ; Domiciliary services ; Nightly ; Personnel ; Social surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | Home Help and Primary Health Care, the two organisations that provide services to older people in Sweden, have collaborated to develop evening and night patrols. This study describes the patrols' work by examining how staff members view their work and the specific work content. The authors developed two questionnaires: one to be answered jointly by patrol teams, and one to be completed by each member of a team. All patrols in the municipality of Jönköping were asked to participate. The most frequent kind of help provided by evening and night patrols involves personal care, but help with medications and injections are also frequent. The staff reported that it is becoming more common for the patrols to assist people with terminal illnesses. The patrols also increasingly assist people with psychiatric problems. However, staff feel that the job may be becoming too diverse, and that they need further training for the range of tasks they are asked to perform. The patrols are very flexible in the services provided. Without the patrols, staff members believe that many older people would have to leave their homes to go into institutions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040504221 A |
| Classmark | C6: N: 4RD: QM: 3F: 76P |
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