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Gerontological social work student-delivered respite
— a community-university partnership pilot program | | Author(s) | Tiffany R Washington, Jacqueline A Tachman |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 60, no 1, January 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, January 2017 |
| Pages | pp 48-67 |
| Source | http://tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Informal care ; Living in the community ; Universities ; Coordination ; Respite care ; Pilot ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors describe a community-university partnership to support a gerontological social work student-delivered respite program, the Houseguest Program (Houseguest). Houseguest was designed using a community-engaged scholarship model of integrating research, teaching, and service. Houseguest was piloted with a small group of community-dwelling, co-residing dementia caregivers and care recipients. The study examined caregivers' experiences with student-delivered respite using qualitative data analysis. Thematic analysis produced 8 themes: (a) respite from full time caregiving role, (b) information on caregiving strategies, (c) no-cost supportive services, (d) opportunity for care recipients to socialise, (e) tailored activities for care recipients, (f) rapport-building between students and family dyad, (g) reciprocity between students and family dyad, and (h) program continuation. The authors conclude with a proposed community-engaged scholarship model for dementia caregiving. Through a community-university partnership, Houseguest reduced the impact of caregiver burden, and created an opportunity for students to serve families affected by dementia through respite and tailored activities. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170331204 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6: K4: V5: QAJ: KTD: 4UC: 3DP: 7T |
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