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Seniors’ perspectives on care: a case study of the Alex Seniors health clinic, Calgary
BACKGROUND: Primary care initiatives face an imperative to not only reduce barriers to care for their patients but also to uniquely accommodate the complex needs of at-risk patient populations. Patient-centered multidisciplinary care team models for primary care, like the Alex Seniors Clinic, are on...
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BioMed Central
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889886 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1008-0 |
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author | Shaw, Marta Rypien, Candace Drummond, Neil Harasym, Patricia Nixon, Lara |
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description | BACKGROUND: Primary care initiatives face an imperative to not only reduce barriers to care for their patients but also to uniquely accommodate the complex needs of at-risk patient populations. Patient-centered multidisciplinary care team models for primary care, like the Alex Seniors Clinic, are one approach for providing comprehensive care for marginalized seniors. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore patient perspectives on the responsiveness of the Alex Seniors Clinic to their stated health needs. RESULTS: Themes reflected participants’ perspectives on factors impacting their health needs as vulnerable seniors as well as on the measures that the Alex Seniors Clinic has taken to meet those needs. Factors impacting health included: the nature of their relationships to the physical environment in which they lived, the nature of the relationships they had to others in that environment, and independence and autonomy. Participants identified accessibility, respect and support, and advocacy as the ways in which the clinic was working to address those health needs. CONCLUSIONS: While respect and support, as well as advocacy, effectively addressed some patient needs, participants felt that accessibility problems continue to be health-related barriers for clinic patients. This may be due to the fact that issues of accessibility reflect larger community and social problems. Nevertheless, it is only through engaging the patient community for input on clinic approaches that an understanding can be gained of how closely a clinic’s care goals are currently aligning with patient perspectives of the care and services they receive. |
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spelling | pubmed-43507882015-03-06 Seniors’ perspectives on care: a case study of the Alex Seniors health clinic, Calgary Shaw, Marta Rypien, Candace Drummond, Neil Harasym, Patricia Nixon, Lara BMC Res Notes Research Article BACKGROUND: Primary care initiatives face an imperative to not only reduce barriers to care for their patients but also to uniquely accommodate the complex needs of at-risk patient populations. Patient-centered multidisciplinary care team models for primary care, like the Alex Seniors Clinic, are one approach for providing comprehensive care for marginalized seniors. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore patient perspectives on the responsiveness of the Alex Seniors Clinic to their stated health needs. RESULTS: Themes reflected participants’ perspectives on factors impacting their health needs as vulnerable seniors as well as on the measures that the Alex Seniors Clinic has taken to meet those needs. Factors impacting health included: the nature of their relationships to the physical environment in which they lived, the nature of the relationships they had to others in that environment, and independence and autonomy. Participants identified accessibility, respect and support, and advocacy as the ways in which the clinic was working to address those health needs. CONCLUSIONS: While respect and support, as well as advocacy, effectively addressed some patient needs, participants felt that accessibility problems continue to be health-related barriers for clinic patients. This may be due to the fact that issues of accessibility reflect larger community and social problems. Nevertheless, it is only through engaging the patient community for input on clinic approaches that an understanding can be gained of how closely a clinic’s care goals are currently aligning with patient perspectives of the care and services they receive. BioMed Central 2015-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4350788/ /pubmed/25889886 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1008-0 Text en © Shaw et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Shaw, Marta Rypien, Candace Drummond, Neil Harasym, Patricia Nixon, Lara Seniors’ perspectives on care: a case study of the Alex Seniors health clinic, Calgary |
title | Seniors’ perspectives on care: a case study of the Alex Seniors health clinic, Calgary |
title_full | Seniors’ perspectives on care: a case study of the Alex Seniors health clinic, Calgary |
title_fullStr | Seniors’ perspectives on care: a case study of the Alex Seniors health clinic, Calgary |
title_full_unstemmed | Seniors’ perspectives on care: a case study of the Alex Seniors health clinic, Calgary |
title_short | Seniors’ perspectives on care: a case study of the Alex Seniors health clinic, Calgary |
title_sort | seniors’ perspectives on care: a case study of the alex seniors health clinic, calgary |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889886 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1008-0 |
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