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| Self-direction in home care for older people: a consumer's perspective | | Author(s) | Lillian L Glickman, Kathy B Stocker, Francis G Caro |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 16, nos 1/2, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 41-54 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Management [care] ; Planning [admin] ; Participation ; Consumer ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Interest among older home care users in playing a stronger role in planning and supervising their own care was examined in this US study. Older home care consumers were surveyed to determine their willingness to assume more responsibility for their home care such as in the employing, paying, scheduling, supervising and/or dismissing of their home care worker. Telephone interviews were held with 883 home care clients in the Massachusetts Home Care Programme. Respondents reported high levels of satisfaction with their home care services and home care worker. However, a substantial minority of respondents reported a willingness to assume more responsibility for their own home care services. A quarter to a third of the respondents indicated that they should take greater responsibility for supervising a home care worker and needed less assistance from a case manager. Multiple regression analyses revealed that prior experience in directing an in-home worker, greater length of receipt of home care services, greater current involvement in directing a home care worker, and lower levels of satisfaction with the services were associated with a willingness to assume responsibility for directing a home care worker. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971209204 A |
| Classmark | N: QA: QA6: TMB: WY: 7T |
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