Who Recommends Long-Term Care Matters

Autor/inn/en	Kane, Robert L.; Bershadsky, Boris; Bershadsky, Julie
Titel	Who Recommends Long-Term Care Matters
Quelle	In: Gerontologist, 46 (2006) 4, S.474-482 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0016-9013
Schlagwörter	Comparative Analysis; Health Personnel; Nurses; Physicians; Geriatrics; Caseworkers; Social Work; Opinions; Intellectual Disciplines; Bias; Health Services; Nursing Homes; Rehabilitation; Home Programs; Residential Care; Social Services; Sampling + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Medizinisches Personal; Physician; Doctor; Arzt; Alterswissenschaft; Geriatrie; Soziale Arbeit; Lehrmeinung; Geisteswissenschaften; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Sonderheim; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste
Abstract	Purpose: Making good consumer decisions requires having good information. This study compared long-term-care recommendations among various types of health professionals. Design and Methods: We gave randomly varied scenarios to a convenience national sample of 211 professionals from varying disciplines and work locations. For each scenario, we asked the professional to recommend the appropriate forms of long-term care. Results: Although the professional respondents used the full spectrum of options offered to them, some professionals tended to favor the sector they worked in. Advanced practice nurses recommended day care and homemaking more and adult foster care less. Gerontologists used skilled nursing-facility placement more actively and rehabilitation, homemaking, and home health care less actively. Geriatricians and primary care physicians both favored rehabilitation and skilled nursing-facility care and were both less enthusiastic about assisted living, homemaking, and informal care, but the geriatricians favored day care more than did the primary care physicians. Registered nurses were highly supportive of assisted living, adult foster care, homemaking, and home health care, and they opposed skilled nursing-facility care. Social workers were less likely than other participants to endorse rehabilitation and adult foster care. Implications: Because consumer preference should be a major factor in making long-term-care decisions, many consumers need information about what options may best fit their situation. In the absence of empirical data on which types of long-term care work best for whom, consumers have to rely on expert judgment--but that judgment varies. Clients should be aware that an expert's background (as defined by discipline and work situation) may affect his or her recommendations. Each discipline appears to have its own set of experiences and beliefs that may influence recommendations. (Contains 1 figure and 4 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10