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Care arrangement decisions for frail older women
— quantitative and qualitative perspectives | | Author(s) | Carol L Jenkins |
| Journal title | Journal of Women & Aging, vol 12, nos 3/4, 2000 |
| Pages | pp 3-20 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Self care capacity ; Family care ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Qualitative Studies ; Quantitative studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used to investigate how a range of care arrangement decisions for frail older unmarried women are made. Quantitative data from the 1989 US National Long Term Care Survey provides information concerning factors that predict the probability of five categories of care arrangements: self only care, nursing home care, informal and formal only care, and a mix of these two. Qualitative interview data provides information on what occurs during care arrangement decision-making processes. Results are combined to explain the choice of care arrangements for a small sample of chronically disabled old unmarried women. Results show that need factors, such as age and disability, are strong predictors of the need for assistance. Family members played a central role in determining care arrangements and often helped an older woman to avoid an unwanted care arrangement. The use of a broad measure of impairment resulted in high levels of disability for the sample participants. Both disability status and care arrangements were transitory in nature. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010222201 A |
| Classmark | BD: CA: P6:SJ: LHB:QKH: 3DP: 3DQ: 7T |
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