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Supported living in residential homes for the elderly
— impact on patients and elder care workers | | Author(s) | M F I A Depla, R de Graaf, H D Kroon |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 8, no 5, September 2004 |
| Pages | pp 460-468 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Living in the community ; Care homes ; Psychiatric treatment ; Personnel ; Care home staff ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | To enable older people with severe and persistent mental illness to live in the community, the Dutch mental health service has developed a programme for supported living in residential homes, which provides for the permanent stationing of mental health workers (MHWs) to support both resident patients and care staff. The authors examined associations between the number of MHW staff and the degree to which: patients were integrated into the community; and care workers had developed effective working alliances with their patients. Participants included 110 patients in 18 supported living programmes in the Netherlands. Community integration was assessed in face-to-face interviews with the patients about their perceived influence over daily life, involvement in social activities, and social network size. The quality of the worker-patient relationship was assessed using the Dutch Working Alliance Questionnaire for Community Care, completed by the patient's case worker. After differentiation of the MHW staff into medically trained and nurse-trained professionals, association with outcome measures were found only for the nurse-trained staff. The more hours of nurse-trained staff capacity per patient, the more influence perceived by the patients, and the more directiveness shown by the care workers in their contacts with patients. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041130251 A |
| Classmark | E: K4: KW: LP: QM: QRM: 76H |
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