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| Family caregiver satisfaction with the nursing home after placement of a relative with dementia | | Author(s) | Jane B Tornatore, Leslie A Grant |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 2, March 2004 |
| Pages | pp S80-S88 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Admission ; Family care ; Stress ; Attitude ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Determining what contributes to family caregiver satisfaction is a critical step toward implementing effective quality improvement strategies. A stress process model is used to study caregiver satisfaction among 285 Minnesota family caregivers in relation to primary objective stressors (stage of dementia, length of stay, length of caregiving role, frequency of visits, involvement in nursing home, and involvement in hands-on care), subjective stressors (expectations for care), caregiver characteristics (e.g. workforce participation), and organisational resources (e.g. rural/urban location). SAS PROC MIXED is used in a multilevel analysis. Higher satisfaction is associated with earlier stage of dementia, greater length of time involved in caregiving prior to institutionalisation, more frequent visits, less involvement in hands-on care, greater expectations for care, and less workforce participation. Multilevel analysis showed that primary stressors are the strongest predictors of satisfaction. Only one caregiver characteristic (work participation) and one organisational resource (urban/rural location) predict satisfaction. Special care unit (SCU) designation was unrelated to satisfaction, perhaps because SCUs have less to offer residents in more advanced as opposed to earlier stages of AD. If family satisfaction is to be achieved, presence in a nursing home needs to give caregivers a sense of positive involvement and influence over the care of their relative. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040705219 A |
| Classmark | EA: LHB: QKH: P6:SJ: QNH: DP: 3F: 7T |
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