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Negotiating vulnerabilities
— how older adults with multiple chronic conditions interact with physicians | | Author(s) | Laura Hurd Clarke, Erica V Bennett, Alexandra Korotchenko |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 33, no 1, March 2014 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, March 2014 |
| Pages | pp 26-37 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Chronic illness ; Patients ; Communication ; General practitioners ; Ageism ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The literature on patient-physician interactions has largely ignored the perspectives of older adults with multiple morbidities. Featuring in-depth interview data from 16 men and 19 women with an average of six chronic conditions, this study focused on how participants perceived and experienced the care provided by their primary care physicians. Participants suggested that physicians caring for patients with multiple chronic conditions should be thorough, amenable to gate keeping, trustworthy, and open to different decision-making styles. However, many study participants perceived that they received inadequate care due to the personal failings of their physicians, constraints of medical consultations, and societal ageism. Consequently, many of the participants, especially the women, employed various strategies to maximise the care they received and manage their physicians' impressions of them as worthy patients. The findings suggest that older patients with multiple morbidities perceive that their health needs are not being adequately met. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150626287 A |
| Classmark | CI: LF: U: QT6: B:TOB: 7S |
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