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Family care-giving and decisions about entry to care
— a rural perspective | | Author(s) | Assumpta Ryan, Hugh McKenna, Oliver Slevin |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 32, part 1, January 2012 |
| Pages | pp 1-18 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Admission [nursing homes] ; Rural areas ; Northern Ireland ; Family care ; Attitude. |
| Annotation | The aim of this qualitative study, based in Northern Ireland, was to explore rural family carers' experiences of the nursing home placement of an older relative. The study used a grounded theory approach in which purposive sampling was used to initiate data collection and thereafter theoretical sampling was employed. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 relatives of nursing home residents and the resultant data were recorded, transcribed and analysed using constant comparisons. The older people in the study had deep attachments to their homes and entry to care was a last resort. However rural family carers had close relationships with health and social care practitioners and felt supported in the decision-making process. The choice of home was a foregone conclusion for carers who had a strong sense of familiarity with the nursing homes in their area. This familiarity was influenced by the relatively rural communities in which respondents resided and by an efficient `grapevine', which seemed to thrive in these small communities. This familiarity, in turn, influenced the choice of nursing home, timing of the placement and responses of family carers. The findings indicate that issues such as rurality and familiarity warrant a more detailed exploration in future research on entry to care. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120312001 A |
| Classmark | LHB:QKH: RL: 9Y: P6:SJ: DP |
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