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Launching medical foster home programs
— key components to growing this alternative to nursing home placement | | Author(s) | Leah M Haverhals, Chelsea E Manheim, Jacqueline Jones, Carl Levy |
| Journal title | Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 31, no 1, January-March 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, January-March 2017 |
| Pages | pp 14-33 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Armed Forces ; Medical care ; Boarding out schemes ; Care support workers ; Medical workers ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | There are some 9 million veterans in the US aged 65+. The authors report on research which aimed to examine and explain elements that enhanced or thwarted growth of the United States Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Medical Foster Home program. A qualitative study was conducted nationally through individual interviews over the phone and in-person (n = 22) with coordinators (n = 15 at slow-growth programs; n = 6 at fast-growth programs), 1 program support assistant (PSA) at a slow-growth program), and 3 home-based primary care team members, as well as three in-person focus groups (n = 28 total participants) with home-based primary care team members. All participants (N = 53) were involved with programs in existence for at least two years. Facilitators and barriers that enhanced or thwarted program growth emerged around four themes: a full-time coordinator; unmitigated home-based primary care team engagement; pursuit and receipt of appropriate referrals; and match between caregiver, home, and veteran. To facilitate program growth, program leaders should consider the four themes that were identified and how to foster situations and shape policies that put these themes into practice. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170421229 A |
| Classmark | VMM: LK: KTB: QRS: QT: 3DP: 7T |
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