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Decision-making factors affecting different family members regarding the placement of relatives in long-term care facilities

BACKGROUND: The aim of this research was to investigate factors affecting different family members’ decisions regarding the placement of relatives in long-term car (LTC) facilities in Taiwan. The objective was to investigate the correlations between family members’ personal traits, the living condit...

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Autores principales: Huang, Ying-Chia, Chu, Chiao-Lee, Ho, Ching-Sung, Lan, Shou-Jen, Hsieh, Chen-Hsi, Hsieh, Yen-Ping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24438495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-21
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author Huang, Ying-Chia
Chu, Chiao-Lee
Ho, Ching-Sung
Lan, Shou-Jen
Hsieh, Chen-Hsi
Hsieh, Yen-Ping
author_facet Huang, Ying-Chia
Chu, Chiao-Lee
Ho, Ching-Sung
Lan, Shou-Jen
Hsieh, Chen-Hsi
Hsieh, Yen-Ping
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description BACKGROUND: The aim of this research was to investigate factors affecting different family members’ decisions regarding the placement of relatives in long-term car (LTC) facilities in Taiwan. The objective was to investigate the correlations between family members’ personal traits, the living conditions of residents in the LTC facilities, and family members’ experiences with LTC facilities. METHODS: This study selected family members visiting residents in LTC facilities as research subjects and used a structured questionnaire to perform face-to-face interviews. This study used nonlinear canonical correlation analysis (OVERALS) to categorize the decision-making factors affecting family members’ choices of LTC facilities. RESULTS: The results showed that when making decisions about the placement of family members, spouses chose facilities according to their own life experiences, children considered medical treatment convenience, grandchildren preferred to collect relevant information on facilities, and other relatives preferred to decide based on introductions from government departments. CONCLUSIONS: These results help clarify how different family roles affect decision-making processes regarding the choice of LTC facilities. In particular, spouses and female relatives require an interventional service mechanism that provides consultation or referral information.
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spelling pubmed-38979172014-01-23 Decision-making factors affecting different family members regarding the placement of relatives in long-term care facilities Huang, Ying-Chia Chu, Chiao-Lee Ho, Ching-Sung Lan, Shou-Jen Hsieh, Chen-Hsi Hsieh, Yen-Ping BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: The aim of this research was to investigate factors affecting different family members’ decisions regarding the placement of relatives in long-term car (LTC) facilities in Taiwan. The objective was to investigate the correlations between family members’ personal traits, the living conditions of residents in the LTC facilities, and family members’ experiences with LTC facilities. METHODS: This study selected family members visiting residents in LTC facilities as research subjects and used a structured questionnaire to perform face-to-face interviews. This study used nonlinear canonical correlation analysis (OVERALS) to categorize the decision-making factors affecting family members’ choices of LTC facilities. RESULTS: The results showed that when making decisions about the placement of family members, spouses chose facilities according to their own life experiences, children considered medical treatment convenience, grandchildren preferred to collect relevant information on facilities, and other relatives preferred to decide based on introductions from government departments. CONCLUSIONS: These results help clarify how different family roles affect decision-making processes regarding the choice of LTC facilities. In particular, spouses and female relatives require an interventional service mechanism that provides consultation or referral information. BioMed Central 2014-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3897917/ /pubmed/24438495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-21 Text en Copyright © 2014 Huang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hsieh, Chen-Hsi
Hsieh, Yen-Ping
Decision-making factors affecting different family members regarding the placement of relatives in long-term care facilities
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title_short Decision-making factors affecting different family members regarding the placement of relatives in long-term care facilities
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24438495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-21
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