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Unmet home care service needs of rural older adults with Alzheimer's Disease a perspective of informal caregivers | Author(s) | Hong Li, Gregory A Kyrouac, Dennis Q McManus |
Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 55, no 5, July 2012 |
Pages | pp 409-425 |
Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
Keywords | Dementia ; Informal care ; Home care services ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Rural areas. |
Annotation | Most older adults with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in rural areas live at home and are cared for by informal caregivers. Services designed to assist older adults and their caregivers, such as meals-on-wheels and in-home personal care, may be less accessible in rural communities. The aim of this study was to assess the unmet service needs of rural older adults with AD and to identify factors that were related to these needs. Data were collected during in-depth telephone interviews conducted with 109 informal caregivers of AD patients in central Illinois. The findings indicated that over half of the patients experienced unmet service needs in one or more areas of activities of daily functioning. Informal caregiver burden and patient's gender and functional status were significantly related to patients' unmet service needs. Patients' use of formal services was marginally related to their unmet service needs. The article concludes that a comprehensive needs assessment should be conducted with both patients and their caregivers in order to better address patients' service needs. (JL). |
Accession Number | CPA-121026039 A |
Classmark | EA: P6: NH: IK: 4C: RL |
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