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Older carers in ageing societies
— an evaluation of a respite care program for older carers in Western Australia | | Author(s) | Peter J Hancock, Jayne A Jarvis, Tanja L'Veena |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 26, nos 2, 2007 |
| Pages | pp 59-84 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Age groups [elderly] ; Boarding out schemes ; Evaluation ; Australia. |
| Annotation | The Australian Red Cross Older Carers Programme was developed in 2003 to support the unique needs of "older carers" aged 65+ (50 if indigenous) who care for a person (a care recipient, usually a family member) aged 18+ with a permanent disability. The programme's aim was to provide intensive care planning, management and volunteer support that would assist older carers to more readily access respite and continue the caring role in the home. To help achieve this end, ongoing individual and holistic assistance involving older carers in decision making was an integral component of the Older Carers Programme, as was the use of regular home visits by programme staff. The Older Carers Programme evaluation was both a process and outcome evaluation. Much of the evaluation research focused on the extent to which is had met its stated aims and objectives. However, because the programme was quite new and innovative, there was a significant further focus on its processes and activities. At the time the evaluation was conducted (May 2005), the programme had been in operation for 22 months. The population group was identified as those people (older carers) who had been part of the programme between July 2003 and March 2005. Of the 96 older carers who had access the programme during that time, 62 agreed to participate in the research. The methodology consisted of an audit of the Programme database, in-depth interviews with older carers, and contextual data collection involving programme staff and other stakeholders. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070618204 A |
| Classmark | P6: BB: KTB: 4C: 7YA |
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