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| Adaptation to care dependency in community care | | Author(s) | Emme-Li Vingare, Oie Umb Carlsson |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol 18, no 4, 2017 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 254-264 |
| Source | http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/... |
| Keywords | Self care capacity ; Needs [elderly] ; Community care ; Person-centred care ; Living in the community. |
| Annotation | The lived experiences of adapting to care dependency among adults receiving health and social care in ordinary housing are explored. The authors conducted a phenomenological study, by interviewing ten adults in receipt of home care services in ordinary housing. It was found that participants not only adapted by becoming "good patients", but they also used four strategies - sociability, distance, competence and compliance - contributing to a sense of dignity and personal safety. Further research is needed regarding how to preserve quality of care with adults with various ways of adapting to care dependency. The relationship between professionals and adults in care dependency is a dynamic process, where a need for understanding different modes of adaptation is vital. Good treatment and quality care may be different things to different adults, depending on what aspects of the process of adaptation concern them the most, and depending on their individual adaptation strategy. This paper contributes to the understanding of modes of adaptation to care dependency from the perspective of adults, indicating that person-centred care may include respecting strategies not traditionally being associated with "the good patient". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171208207 A |
| Classmark | CA: IK: PA: PAA: K4 |
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