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Caregivers’ Experiences Regarding Training and Support in the Post-Acute Home Health-Care Setting
BACKGROUND: Post-acute home health-care (HHC) services provide a unique opportunity to train and support family caregivers of older adults returning home after a hospitalization. To enhance family-focused training and support strategies, we must first understand caregivers’ experiences. OBJECTIVE: T...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534114/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33062879 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374373519869156 |
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author | Chase, Jo-Ana D Russell, David Rice, Meridith Abbott, Carmen Bowles, Kathryn H Mehr, David R |
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description | BACKGROUND: Post-acute home health-care (HHC) services provide a unique opportunity to train and support family caregivers of older adults returning home after a hospitalization. To enhance family-focused training and support strategies, we must first understand caregivers’ experiences. OBJECTIVE: To explore caregivers’ experiences regarding training and support for managing older adults’ physical functioning (PF) needs in the post-acute HHC setting. METHOD: We conducted a qualitative descriptive study using semi-structured telephone interviews of 20 family caregivers. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using conventional content analysis. RESULTS: We identified the following primary categories: facilitators to learning (eg, past experience, learning methods), barriers to learning (eg, learning on their own, communication, timing/logistics, preferred information and timing of information delivery), and interactions with HHC providers (eg, positive/negative interactions, provider training and knowledge). CONCLUSION: Caregivers were responsive to learning strategies to manage older adults’ PF needs and, importantly, voiced ideas to improve family-focused training and support. HHC providers can use these findings to tailor training and support of family caregivers in the post-acute HHC setting. |
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spelling | pubmed-75341142020-10-14 Caregivers’ Experiences Regarding Training and Support in the Post-Acute Home Health-Care Setting Chase, Jo-Ana D Russell, David Rice, Meridith Abbott, Carmen Bowles, Kathryn H Mehr, David R J Patient Exp Research Articles BACKGROUND: Post-acute home health-care (HHC) services provide a unique opportunity to train and support family caregivers of older adults returning home after a hospitalization. To enhance family-focused training and support strategies, we must first understand caregivers’ experiences. OBJECTIVE: To explore caregivers’ experiences regarding training and support for managing older adults’ physical functioning (PF) needs in the post-acute HHC setting. METHOD: We conducted a qualitative descriptive study using semi-structured telephone interviews of 20 family caregivers. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using conventional content analysis. RESULTS: We identified the following primary categories: facilitators to learning (eg, past experience, learning methods), barriers to learning (eg, learning on their own, communication, timing/logistics, preferred information and timing of information delivery), and interactions with HHC providers (eg, positive/negative interactions, provider training and knowledge). CONCLUSION: Caregivers were responsive to learning strategies to manage older adults’ PF needs and, importantly, voiced ideas to improve family-focused training and support. HHC providers can use these findings to tailor training and support of family caregivers in the post-acute HHC setting. SAGE Publications 2019-08-21 2020-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7534114/ /pubmed/33062879 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374373519869156 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Chase, Jo-Ana D Russell, David Rice, Meridith Abbott, Carmen Bowles, Kathryn H Mehr, David R Caregivers’ Experiences Regarding Training and Support in the Post-Acute Home Health-Care Setting |
title | Caregivers’ Experiences Regarding Training and Support in the Post-Acute Home Health-Care Setting |
title_full | Caregivers’ Experiences Regarding Training and Support in the Post-Acute Home Health-Care Setting |
title_fullStr | Caregivers’ Experiences Regarding Training and Support in the Post-Acute Home Health-Care Setting |
title_full_unstemmed | Caregivers’ Experiences Regarding Training and Support in the Post-Acute Home Health-Care Setting |
title_short | Caregivers’ Experiences Regarding Training and Support in the Post-Acute Home Health-Care Setting |
title_sort | caregivers’ experiences regarding training and support in the post-acute home health-care setting |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534114/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33062879 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374373519869156 |
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