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'Making the move'
— relatives' experiences of the transition to a care home | | Author(s) | Sue Davies, Mike Nolan |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 12, no 6, November 2004 |
| Pages | pp 517-526 |
| Source | www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Family care ; Attitude ; Admission [care homes] ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Data were collected in 37 semi-structured interviews involving 48 people who had assisted a close relative to move into a nursing home. Data analyses revealed three phases of the transition from the relatives' perspective: "making the best of it"; "making the move"; and "making it better". The relatives' experiences across these phases were understood in terms of five continua: reflecting the extent to which they felt they were operating "under pressure" or not; "working together" or "working alone"; "supported" or "unsupported", both practically and emotionally; "in the know" or "working in the dark"; and "in control of events" or not. This paper reports on the findings which relate to the second phase of the transition, "making the move", which relates to experiences around the time of relocation to the care home environment. The findings suggest that health and social care practitioners have enoromous potential to influence relatives' experiences of nursing home entry. Experiences are enhanced if family carers perceive that they are able to work in partnership with care staff in order to ease the transition for the older person. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041216203 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: DP: KW:QKH: LHB:QKH: 3F |
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