Social Work Research, 21(3), September 1997, pp.165-172.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Discusses how older people who need home care are a heterogeneous population. Individuals in this population can have very different demographic, disease, and functional-status characteristics. As a result, different subgroups of home care users require different sets of services and can logically be expected to experience different care outcomes. This article demonstrates this complexity by summarising four studies (two complete and two ongoing) that assess the effect of home health care models that provide more flexible home care benefits to chronically ill elderly people than the current restrictive us Medicare home health care model.
Discusses how older people who need home care are a heterogeneous population. Individuals in this population can have very different demographic, disease, and functional-status characteristics. As a result, different subgroups of home care users require different sets of services and can logically be expected to experience different care outcomes. This article demonstrates this complexity by summarising four studies (two complete and two ongoing) that assess the effect of home health care models that provide more flexible home care benefits to chronically ill elderly people than the current restrictive us Medicare home health care model.
Subject terms:
home care, models, needs, older people, rehabilitation, social care provision, evaluation, health, health care;
This study tests the cross-sectional relationship between caregiver burden and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among a sample of caregivers of veterans in the USA identified to qualify for formal home care. A two stage model found that familial relationship, coresidence, and low income predicted objective burden. In the full model spousal relationship, low income, and burden were associated with poor HRQOL scores. The findings suggest a direct effect of objective burdens on caregiver HRQOL, indicating a need among caregivers for assistance in caring for disabled family members.
This study tests the cross-sectional relationship between caregiver burden and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among a sample of caregivers of veterans in the USA identified to qualify for formal home care. A two stage model found that familial relationship, coresidence, and low income predicted objective burden. In the full model spousal relationship, low income, and burden were associated with poor HRQOL scores. The findings suggest a direct effect of objective burdens on caregiver HRQOL, indicating a need among caregivers for assistance in caring for disabled family members.
Subject terms:
income, interpersonal relationships, low income, models, older people, quality of life, stress, carers, black and minority ethnic people, families, family relations, health;