What Do People Value When They Provide Unpaid Care for an Older Person? A Meta-Ethnography with Interview Follow-Up  

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Al-Janabi, Hareth ; Coast, Joanna ; Flynn, Terry N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 67 no. 1 (Jul. 2008), page 111-121.
Topik: UK; Informal Care; Quality of Life Measurement; Evidence Synthesis; Interviews; Economic Evaluation; Older People

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.21 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Government policies to shift care into the community and demographic changes mean that unpaid (informal) careers will increasingly be relied on to deliver care, particularly to older people. As a result, careful consideration needs to be given to informal care in economic evaluations. Current methods for economic evaluations may neglect important aspects of informal care. This paper reports the development of a simple measure of the caring experience for use in economic evaluations. A meta-ethnography was used to reduce qualitative research to six conceptual attributes of caring. Sixteen semi-structured interviews were then conducted with careers of older people, to check the attributed and develop them into the measure. Six attributes of the caring experience comprise the final measure:getting on, organizational assistance, social support, activities, control, and fulfillment. The final measure (the Career Experience Scale) focuses on the process of providing care, rather than health outcomes from caring. Arguably this provides a more direct assessment of careers' welfare. Following work to test and scale the measure, it may offer a promising way of incorporating the impact on careers in economic evaluations.

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