Returning Home from Residential Care? Patient Preferences and their Determinants

Bibliographic Data

ID11199366
AuthorsAnja Noro (Research Council of Finland), Seppo Aro (Research Council of Finland)
Year1997
Volume17
Issue3
Pages305-321
Publication date1997-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAgeing and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0144686x97006454
OpenAlexW2156799110
LanguageEN
Citations received2

The objective of the study was to discover what fairly independent residents living in long-term residential care think about home care as an alternative. A stratified systematic sample was drawn from a one-day census of patients in all residential homes in Finland on 2 December, 1991. A postal survey was used for data collection in December, 1992. Respondents who preferred home care were compared with respondents preferring residential care according to length of stay, health, functional ability and health-related quality of life. Most respondents preferred institutional care. Preference for home care was explained most strongly by emotional factors, unwillingness for residential care at admission, and still having a home to return to. Shorter length of stay also predicted preference for home care. Those who preferred home care admitted they would need much formal care after discharge. People living in residential homes are rarely ready for discharge home, because of limitations in their physical ability or of their unwillingness to change their site of care

Census · Data collection · Environmental health · Health care · Home health · Long-term care · Population · Preference · Residential care · Sample (material) · Sociology · Stratified sampling · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Gerontology

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