The Revolving Door

High ER Use Among Older Veterans

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5454923
AutoresMaria L Claver (California State University-Long Beach, Long Beach, California, USA), Maria Claver (0000-0003-3831-1915, California State University, Long Beach, autor correspondente), Lene Levy-Storms (University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA), Lené Levy‐Storms (University of California, Los Angeles)
Ano2010
Volume20
Fascículo3
Páginas365-374
Data de publicação2010-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732309350682
PMID19826079
OpenAlexW2119327887
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas31

Why do some older veterans visit the emergency room (ER) frequently? This study expands an existing decision-making model that describes how ER users recognize symptoms of a health problem, decide to seek medical care for the health problem, and decide to visit the ER specifically for the medical care. The focus of this inquiry is the role of older veterans' social support networks in decisions to visit the ER. Data were collected through in-depth, semistructured, in-person interviews with 30 community-dwelling, high-functioning veterans aged 65 years and older who had visited the ER frequently (3 or more times) in the previous year. We found that the older veteran study participants, regardless of the availability of social support, preferred to make decisions independently, relied heavily on formal social support network members, and received various types of assistance to visit the ER from informal social support networks

Focus group · Older people · Political science · Social media · Social support · Sociology · Emergency and Acute Care Studies · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Medicine · Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology