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Older persons' experience of being assessed for and receiving public home help
— do they have any influence over it? | | Author(s) | Ann-Christin Janlöv, Ingalill Rahm Hallberg, Kerstin Petersson |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 14, no 1, January 2006 |
| Pages | pp 26-36 |
| Source | www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Home care services ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Qualitative Studies ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | This Swedish qualitative study explored 28 older people's experience of participation in and influence on decisions about public home help or care when undergoing needs assessment and receiving public home help. Data were collected by means of in-depth interviews. A content analysis revealed one overarching category: 'having to be satisfied, adjust and walk a fine line when balancing between needs and available help'. There were three further principal categories: balancing comfort and guilt - receiving help from the family at the limits of their capacity; 'a necessary evil' - balancing feelings and resources against having no choice but to accept; and incorporating the home help into daily life to gain a sense of continuity. The findings indicate that older people have difficulties coping and adapting to their new life situation and have no actual influence over the decisions about their home help. This suggests that attention should be paid to a frail person's mental state, and that the needs assessment and home help officer should to a larger extent focus on individual needs as a whole, and involve and encourage the older person to strengthen his or her sense of being in control. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060314209 A |
| Classmark | NH: IK: 4C: 3DP: 76P |
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