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Negotiating meaning
— the experience of community aged care | | Author(s) | Susanna Doyle |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 19, no 1, 2017 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 10-20 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/jap |
| Keywords | Community care ; Protection [vulnerable adults] ; Participation ; Engagement ; Attitude ; Methodology ; Australia. |
| Annotation | A framework for achieving what Heidegger referred to as a "fusion of horizons" of understanding was developed during a study into the experience of a group of older adults receiving care. This paper aims to discuss this issue, by exploring the lived experiences of a small group of older people living in south-east Queensland in receipt of a Community Aged Care Package (CACP). The interpretive hermeneutic phenomenological methodology provided strategies for enabling a researcher to shift his or her understanding to be closer to that of the older adult receiving care, to better understand the experience of receiving care from the perspective of a recipient. Older adults participated in research exploring their everyday lived experiences, and contributed to the researcher's understanding of the personal impact of care. The older people in this study perceived care in essentially relational terms, and raised the importance of maintaining personal autonomy and relationships as central to maintaining meaning in daily life. This framework for successfully achieving a "fusion of horizons" during research is discussed and proposed as a potential strategy for also supporting active participation by adults in their own care provision. This strategy might be used as a way of enhancing the engagement, safety and satisfaction of older adults, thereby also assisting in protecting them from potentially negative influences of power differentials that affect their care experience. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170324200 A |
| Classmark | PA: CA3G: TMB: DN: DP: 3D: 7YA |
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