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Doing the Right Thing: Caregivers and Medical or Nursing Tasks in the Post-Acute Home Care Setting
Family caregivers often manage complex medical/nursing tasks (MNTs) for older adults returning home after a hospitalization. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe caregivers’ experiences leveraging diverse resources to manage MNTs for older adults receiving post-acute home health car...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7740920/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.811 |
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author | Chase, Jo-Ana Russell, David Kaplan, Daniel Bueno, Michael Khiewchaum, Rungnapha Feldman, Penny |
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description | Family caregivers often manage complex medical/nursing tasks (MNTs) for older adults returning home after a hospitalization. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe caregivers’ experiences leveraging diverse resources to manage MNTs for older adults receiving post-acute home health care services (HHC). In-depth telephone interviews were conducted with 20 caregivers of older adults who received HHC following hospitalization. Interviews were digitally audio-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using directed content analysis. The Theory of Dependent-Care informed the analytical framework. We organized codes using three theoretical constructs related to managing older adults’ MNT care needs (“tasks related to the other”), accessing existing social/environmental resources (“tasks related to the situation of care”), and working with the healthcare system (“tasks related to the system of care”). Caregivers’ descriptions of MNTs included the complexity and socioemotional impact of assisting in these tasks (e.g., dependency, trust). When needed, caregivers’ accessed social (e.g., family, friends) and environmental (e.g., neighborhood, housing) resources to help address the older adults’ care needs. Caregivers also identified challenges and strategies for navigating and coordinating care and services within HHC and the larger healthcare system. Caregivers assisting with complex MNTs in the post-acute HHC setting need additional training and support. HHC providers can actively engage caregivers by tailoring training and support strategies, assessing social and environmental contexts and resources, and facilitating caregivers’ navigation of the healthcare system. Future research could elucidate social and environmental factors associated with successful collaborative relationships among providers, older adults and their caregivers in the post-acute HHC setting. |
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spelling | pubmed-77409202020-12-21 Doing the Right Thing: Caregivers and Medical or Nursing Tasks in the Post-Acute Home Care Setting Chase, Jo-Ana Russell, David Kaplan, Daniel Bueno, Michael Khiewchaum, Rungnapha Feldman, Penny Innov Aging Abstracts Family caregivers often manage complex medical/nursing tasks (MNTs) for older adults returning home after a hospitalization. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe caregivers’ experiences leveraging diverse resources to manage MNTs for older adults receiving post-acute home health care services (HHC). In-depth telephone interviews were conducted with 20 caregivers of older adults who received HHC following hospitalization. Interviews were digitally audio-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using directed content analysis. The Theory of Dependent-Care informed the analytical framework. We organized codes using three theoretical constructs related to managing older adults’ MNT care needs (“tasks related to the other”), accessing existing social/environmental resources (“tasks related to the situation of care”), and working with the healthcare system (“tasks related to the system of care”). Caregivers’ descriptions of MNTs included the complexity and socioemotional impact of assisting in these tasks (e.g., dependency, trust). When needed, caregivers’ accessed social (e.g., family, friends) and environmental (e.g., neighborhood, housing) resources to help address the older adults’ care needs. Caregivers also identified challenges and strategies for navigating and coordinating care and services within HHC and the larger healthcare system. Caregivers assisting with complex MNTs in the post-acute HHC setting need additional training and support. HHC providers can actively engage caregivers by tailoring training and support strategies, assessing social and environmental contexts and resources, and facilitating caregivers’ navigation of the healthcare system. Future research could elucidate social and environmental factors associated with successful collaborative relationships among providers, older adults and their caregivers in the post-acute HHC setting. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7740920/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.811 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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 reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Chase, Jo-Ana Russell, David Kaplan, Daniel Bueno, Michael Khiewchaum, Rungnapha Feldman, Penny Doing the Right Thing: Caregivers and Medical or Nursing Tasks in the Post-Acute Home Care Setting |
title | Doing the Right Thing: Caregivers and Medical or Nursing Tasks in the Post-Acute Home Care Setting |
title_full | Doing the Right Thing: Caregivers and Medical or Nursing Tasks in the Post-Acute Home Care Setting |
title_fullStr | Doing the Right Thing: Caregivers and Medical or Nursing Tasks in the Post-Acute Home Care Setting |
title_full_unstemmed | Doing the Right Thing: Caregivers and Medical or Nursing Tasks in the Post-Acute Home Care Setting |
title_short | Doing the Right Thing: Caregivers and Medical or Nursing Tasks in the Post-Acute Home Care Setting |
title_sort | doing the right thing: caregivers and medical or nursing tasks in the post-acute home care setting |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7740920/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.811 |
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