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Disagreement in preference for residential care between family caregivers and elders is greater among cognitive impaired elders group than cognitively intact elders group
- Authors:
- CHAU Pui Hing, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 25(1), January 2010, pp.46-54.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
For this study examining the predictive factors of preference for residential care in cognitively intact and impaired elders and their family caregivers, a survey was conducted with a sample of 707 community dwelling elders aged 65 and above and 705 family caregivers in Hong Kong. The main finding of the study was that there was significant disagreement between elders with cognitive impairment and their family caregivers in the preference for residential care - from the elders' perspective, less preference for residential care was associated with cognitive impairment whereas greater preference was associated with depression (for those cognitively intact), more usage of community service and functional impairment; from the caregivers' perspective, greater preference for residential care was associated with greater caregiver burden, or care recipients having cognitive or functional impairment, or more usage of community services. The authors concluded that cognitively intact elders were more likely to indicate preference for residential care than cognitively impaired elders and both cognitively intact and impaired elders were less likely than their caregivers to indicate preference for residential care, and that disagreement in preference for residential care between the elders and their caregivers was larger for the cognitively impaired group.