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A Qualitative Study on the Position and Role of Volunteers in Integrated Care—An Example of Palliative Care in Croatia
Volunteers have been present in palliative care since its inception. With the development of palliative care systems, their role and position are changing. Given growing long-term care needs and limited resources in health and social care, volunteers are becoming an important resource in meeting the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9266722/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35805861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138203 |
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author | Vočanec, Dorja Lončarek, Karmen Banadinović, Maja Sović, Slavica Džakula, Aleksandar |
author_facet | Vočanec, Dorja Lončarek, Karmen Banadinović, Maja Sović, Slavica Džakula, Aleksandar |
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description | Volunteers have been present in palliative care since its inception. With the development of palliative care systems, their role and position are changing. Given growing long-term care needs and limited resources in health and social care, volunteers are becoming an important resource in meeting these needs. In Croatia, palliative care has been developing as an integrated care model since 2014. To assess the position and the role of volunteers, we analyzed legislative documents from healthcare and social care and conducted a focus group with volunteers in palliative care. We found that volunteers provide support from the social aspect of care, for the patient and the family. The formal palliative care system involves them as partners in the provision of care, even though this cooperation is informal. The main determinants of their activities are an individualized approach, flexibility, a community presence, and project funding. In conclusion, these determinants allow them to react quickly to identified needs, but with them come some uncertainties of their sustainability. Their activities could indicate what needs to be integrated between health and social care and in what areas. Volunteers both fill in gaps in the system and are ahead of the system, and by doing this they develop new processes around identified unmet needs. |
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spelling | pubmed-92667222022-07-09 A Qualitative Study on the Position and Role of Volunteers in Integrated Care—An Example of Palliative Care in Croatia Vočanec, Dorja Lončarek, Karmen Banadinović, Maja Sović, Slavica Džakula, Aleksandar Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Volunteers have been present in palliative care since its inception. With the development of palliative care systems, their role and position are changing. Given growing long-term care needs and limited resources in health and social care, volunteers are becoming an important resource in meeting these needs. In Croatia, palliative care has been developing as an integrated care model since 2014. To assess the position and the role of volunteers, we analyzed legislative documents from healthcare and social care and conducted a focus group with volunteers in palliative care. We found that volunteers provide support from the social aspect of care, for the patient and the family. The formal palliative care system involves them as partners in the provision of care, even though this cooperation is informal. The main determinants of their activities are an individualized approach, flexibility, a community presence, and project funding. In conclusion, these determinants allow them to react quickly to identified needs, but with them come some uncertainties of their sustainability. Their activities could indicate what needs to be integrated between health and social care and in what areas. Volunteers both fill in gaps in the system and are ahead of the system, and by doing this they develop new processes around identified unmet needs. MDPI 2022-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9266722/ /pubmed/35805861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138203 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Vočanec, Dorja Lončarek, Karmen Banadinović, Maja Sović, Slavica Džakula, Aleksandar A Qualitative Study on the Position and Role of Volunteers in Integrated Care—An Example of Palliative Care in Croatia |
title | A Qualitative Study on the Position and Role of Volunteers in Integrated Care—An Example of Palliative Care in Croatia |
title_full | A Qualitative Study on the Position and Role of Volunteers in Integrated Care—An Example of Palliative Care in Croatia |
title_fullStr | A Qualitative Study on the Position and Role of Volunteers in Integrated Care—An Example of Palliative Care in Croatia |
title_full_unstemmed | A Qualitative Study on the Position and Role of Volunteers in Integrated Care—An Example of Palliative Care in Croatia |
title_short | A Qualitative Study on the Position and Role of Volunteers in Integrated Care—An Example of Palliative Care in Croatia |
title_sort | qualitative study on the position and role of volunteers in integrated care—an example of palliative care in croatia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9266722/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35805861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138203 |
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