Older Widows’ Speculations and Expectancies Concerning Professional Home-Care Providers
Little is known about older persons’ expectancies (or anticipations) about the possible actions of home-care professionals, although such data have implications for the ethics of home care and home-care policies. From a longitudinal study of older women’s experience of home care, findings are report...
| Κύριοι συγγραφείς: | ; |
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
| Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
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Sage
2005
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| Στο/Στη: |
Nursing ethics
Έτος: 2005, Τόμος: 12, Τεύχος: 5, Σελίδες: 507-521 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
age 80 years and over
B Home care services |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Σύνοψη: | Little is known about older persons’ expectancies (or anticipations) about the possible actions of home-care professionals, although such data have implications for the ethics of home care and home-care policies. From a longitudinal study of older women’s experience of home care, findings are reported concerning their expectancies of professional home-care providers. A descriptive phenomenological method was used to detail the structure of the experience and its context. Data were analyzed from a series of interviews with 13 women aged 82 to 96 years. Among the five key structures of experience were ‘finding that someone has the job of helping me here’ and ‘determining where the helper’s field lies’. Two subsets within a category of expectancies were differentiated: speculations about helpers’ possible actions and expectancies about outcomes of helpers’ actions. As parameters of relational ethics, clients’ speculations and expectancies are appropriate bases for dialogue about older widows’ relationships with home-care professionals and the foci of home-care policies. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-0989 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1191/0969733005ne818oa |