Older Women Doing Home Care: Exploitation or Ideal Job?

Home sweet home? Community care for older people in Australia.

Community care provision for older Australians is growing in places and options, based on older people's preference to stay in their own homes, coupled with its cost efficiency compared to long-term residential care. Australia's aging population, cultural diversity, and dispersed population in rural and remote areas presents significant challenges in meeting these care needs. The objective of t...

Quality of care and outcomes of older heart failure patients: is the United States doing a better job than Canada?

The Issue Despite similar culture, economy and geography, the United States and Canada have very different methods of financing and delivering healthcare. The U.S.’ market-oriented system with limited governmental control is in sharp contrast to Canada’s single-payer system covering the majority of physician and hospital services and prescription medications for seniors (Iglehart 2003; Detsky a...

Home Care for Older Couples : “ It Feels

In this article, the authors explore the home care experience as described by older physically impaired individuals and their caregiving spouses. Separate face-to-face semistructured interviews were carried out with each spouse from nine couples. Analysis of the interview data revealed four themes. For care receivers the themes were Independence and Developing a Trusting Relationship With Home ...

‘Doing with …’ rather than ‘doing for …’ older adults: rationale and content of the ‘Stay Active at Home’ programme

BACKGROUND Owing to increasing age, accidents or periods of illness, home care services are provided to community-dwelling older adults. Traditionally, these services focus on doing things for older adults rather than with them; though from a rehabilitative perspective, it is important to assist older adults to attain and maintain their highest level of functioning. Consequently, a re-orientati...

Facing obstacles, yet doing one's job properly.