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| Family caregivers' viewpoints towards quality of long-term care services for community-dwelling elders in Taiwan | | Author(s) | I Lee, Hsiu-Hung Wang, Chii-Jun Chiou |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 17, no 3, May 2009 |
| Pages | pp 312-320 |
| Source | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Family care ; Attitude ; Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Qualitative Studies ; Taiwan. |
| Annotation | The population of older people in Taiwan is increasing rapidly, and long-term gerontology care has become an important issue in the greying society. A qualitative study conducted between August and December 2005 used focus groups to explore family caregivers' viewpoints and opinions regarding long-term care services for community-dwelling older people in Taiwan. 50 family caregivers agreed to participate in the focus group interviews that were used to collect the data. Five major themes emerged through content analysis and peer discussion: praise for the services; flexibility of long-term care services; comprehensiveness of long-term care services; linkage and extension of existing resources; and activeness of service provision. Study findings from family caregivers' viewpoints should contribute to the improvement of long-term care services and provide a basis for designing suitable programmes to enhance in situ care living in the community. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091019004 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: DP: I: L: 4Q: 3DP: 7DP |
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