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| Family caregiving at the intersection of private care by migrant home care workers and public care by nursing staff | | Author(s) | Liat Ayalon, Sara Halevy-Levin, Zvi Ben-Yizhak, Gideon Friedman |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 25, no 9, September 2013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, September 2013 |
| Pages | pp 1463-1473 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/ipg |
| Keywords | Admission [hospitals] ; Family care ; Home care services ; Immigrants ; Care support workers ; Nurses ; Social roles. |
| Annotation | The present study evaluated private family caregiving at the intersection of private migrant home care and public nursing care on the hospitalisation of an older patient. 73 individuals were interviewed including older hospitalised patients, their family members, accompanying migrant home care workers and nursing personnel. There was no clear consensus concerning the role of family members. Although family members emphasised care management as their main role, the other three groups emphasised that the family members' mere physical presence was their main role. All four groups identified potential barriers to family caregiving rather than motives for family caregiving, hence pointing to a potential discrepancy between expected and performed family caregiving roles. An indication of the lack of clarity concerning family caregiving roles stems from the finding that family members were frequently viewed as unengaged and neglectful, yet at times they were criticised for being overly involved in patient care. Implications for the care of hospitalised older adults are discussed. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130830219 A |
| Classmark | LD:QKH: P6:SJ: NH: TJ: QRS: QTE: TM5 |
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