| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Evaluation of the home help service and its impact on the informal caregiver's burden of dependent elders | | Author(s) | Stephanie Carretero, Jorge Garcés, Francisco Ródenas |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 22, no 8, August 2007 |
| Pages | pp 738-749 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Boarding out schemes ; Home care services ; Informal care ; Stress ; Evaluation ; Spain. |
| Annotation | This study looks at the objective and subjective characteristics of home respite service provision and its impact on the informal care burden of dependent older people. A sample of 296 dependent people and their informal caregivers was randomly selected from users and non-users of the Home Help Service (HHS) in the Communidad Valenciana, Spain. An experimental design was used and a field study was carried out that collected information on sociodemographic variables of the dependent person and his/her caregiver, HHS characteristics and the assessment of services delivered by this resource as well as the informal caregivers' burden. Results show that the services of this resource are very limited, with low cover and frequency, and they do not cater for the real dependency needs in specific activities of daily living (ADLs). However, users and caregivers are satisfied with the care, and experience a higher quality of life since it was implemented, although the HHS does not alleviate informal caregivers' stress. These data show the need to extend the services delivered by the HHS and the duration of care; address the caregiver's need for psychological care; and look at potentially modifiable variables in the care context when designing prevention and psychological programmes to lessen informal caregivers' burden. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070910202 A |
| Classmark | KTB: NH: P6: QNH: 4C: 76S |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|