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| The influence of care provider access to structural empowerment on individualized care in long-term care facilities | | Author(s) | Sienna Caspar, Norm O'Rourke |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 63B, no 4, July 2008 |
| Pages | pp S255-S265 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Nurses ; Care support workers ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Health services ; Long term ; Rights [elderly] ; Social surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Implementing management initiatives that enable formal caregivers to provide quality, individualized care to older adults in long-term-care (LTC) facilities is increasingly important, given that the number of LTC residents is projected to triple by 2031. This study explored the relationship between care provider access to structural empowerment and the provision of individualized care in LTC. The authors computed structural equation models separately for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses (n = 242) and care aides (n = 326) to examine the relationship between access to empowerment structures (i.e. informal power, formal power, information, support, resources, opportunity) and the provision of individualized care. The authors subsequently undertook invariance analyses to determine if the association between empowerment structures and reported provision of individualized care differed between caregiver groups. Access to structural empowerment had a statistically significant, positive association with provision of individualized care for both groups. For registered nurses/licensed practical nurses and care aides, empowerment explained 50% and 45% of observed variance in individualized care, respectively. These notable percentages did not differ significantly between caregiver groups. Of the empowerment structures, support, especially in the form of access to educational opportunities and recognition for a job well done, seems to be particularly significant to care providers. Findings from this study suggest that provision of individualized care in LTC may be enhanced when formal caregivers have appreciable access to empowerment structures. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091210218 A |
| Classmark | QTE: QRS: KW: LHB: L: 4Q: IKR: 3F: 7S |
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