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Quality of private personal care for elderly people with a disability living at home
— correlates and potential outcomes | | Author(s) | Claudio Bilotta, Carlo Vergani |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 16, no 4, July 2008 |
| Pages | pp 354-362 |
| Source | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Care support workers ; Quality ; Informal care ; Stress ; Physical disabilities ; Living in the community ; Cross sectional surveys ; Italy. |
| Annotation | 100 older outpatients of a geriatric medicine unit in Milan, Italy living at home were recruited to this cross-sectional study between May 2005 and February 2007, along with their private aides and 80 informal carers. Cases were stratified according to the quality of private care as described by participants and informal caregivers. In cases of individuals suffering from overt cognitive impairment, only informal caregivers' opinions were taken into account. Comparisons were made between the "poor or fair care" group (n=15) the "intermediate care" group (n=39) and the "optimal care" group (n=45). Considering the characteristics of private aides, there was a significant trend across the three groups in terms of language skills and level of distress with life conditions. A statistical analysis performed on participants without an overt cognitive impairment (n=59) and informal carers showed an increase in the European Quality of Life Visual Analogue Scale score and a decrease in the Caregiver Burden Inventory score across the three groups. No significant differences were found across the three groups in terms of social variables, functional and cognitive status, prevalence of depressive disorders and morbidity. Good language skills or non-distressing living conditions of private aides appear to be correlates of an optimal quality of care for community-dwelling older people with a disability. Better quality of life for these outpatients, and less distress for their informal caregivers appear to be potential outcomes of the quality of personal care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080703204 A |
| Classmark | N: QRS: 59: P6: QNH: BN: K4: 3KB: 76V |
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