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| How well do family caregivers know their relatives' care values and preferences? | | Author(s) | Carol J Whitlatch, Rich Piiparinen, Lynn Friss Feinberg |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 8, no 2, May 2009 |
| Pages | pp 223-244 |
| Source | http://www.dem.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive impairment ; Consumer choice ; Rights [elderly] ; Family care ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The psychometric properties of the Values and Preferences Scale (VPS) are examined. This study also compares the responses of 267 people with cognitive impairment with the responses of their family caregivers to determine the accuracy of the caregivers' perceptions of their relatives' care values and preferences. Exploratory factor analysis examined whether a consistent factor structure could be found for the VPS both for the people with cognitive impairment (PWCIs) and family caregivers. Analyses also determined whether family caregivers were accurate in their perceptions of their relative's care preferences. Results indicate that the VPS was best divided into four factors or subscales (i.e. burden, safety or quality of care, autonomy, and social interactions), all of which were found to have adequate natural consistency for people with cognitive impairment and family caregivers. Caregivers generally had a good sense of what preferences were most important to their relatives (i.e. issues of safety and quality of care) but often underestimated the importance of certain values and preferences. These findings support previous work suggesting that practitioners consider incorporating an assessment of values and preferences for everyday care when working with people with cognitive impairment and their family caregivers. Further application and testing of the VPS should prove useful to practitioners who assist cognitively impaired people and their caregivers with health care decision-making and planning. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090702204 A |
| Classmark | EA: E4: WYC: IKR: P6:SJ: 4C: 7T |
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