Population ageing has motivated policy makers around the world to focus on how best to organise health and social care services to meet an aniticipated growing demand on services. Two popular initiatives are reablement and telecare. Reablement is an approach within homecare that enables older individuals with social care needs to improve their functional performance and live independently. Telecare, on the other hand, involves use of devices to monitor individuals' health and safety, and provide response when needed. This thesis investigates the effectiveness of reablement and telecare by conducting a comprehensive review of the literature and undertaking three empirical studies. It is composed of six chapters. The first chapter presents a theoretical model that links the demand for reablement and telecare to various outcomes. The model is estimated using a strategy that controls for the effects of confounding variables and unobservable factors, and is general in the sense that it nests several other estimation strategies and study designs as special cases. The next chapter contains the literature review. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 present the three empirical studies. The first study investigates the effect of telecare on independent living at home; the second study determines the relationship between the use of telecare and admission to hospital, while the third study determines the relationship between telecare use and the length of stay in hospital. Chapter 6 concludes the thesis and provides some suggestions for further research. Unlike the results of the previous studies, the findings from this thesis suggest that the treatment effects are not homogenous across the poulation and also vary depending on the type of telecare device under consideration.

This research evaluated the importance of select competencies in the area of human behavior, important to home-based caregivers employed independently and/or within a service agency in the State of Alaska. Data were gathered from respondents working in home-based care (N=76), and from those working in a related field (N=38). Data were collected on a forty-three (43) item instrument, using a five-point Likert type scale. The instrument was validated by a consensus of panelists using the Delphi technique. The reliability of the instrument was determined to be +0.893, using the Hoyt-Stunkard method. Analysis of variance tests were completed for each of the forty-three (43) competencies and for two work status characteristics to determine differences between responses of those working in home-based care and those working in a related field. Factor analysis, using the R-mode, provided for clustering of competencies and constituted the major analysis procedure for the study. The purpose of the study was to provide curriculum planning direction for postsecondary training in human behavior-related competencies for home-based caregivers. The results of the study indicated the presence of five (5) clusters of content considered basic to training curriculum for all home-based caregivers. The clusters included: One Family systems (8 competencies); Two - Nutrition and food management (6 competencies); Three - Human development (13 competencies); Four Home safety and accessibility (9 competencies); and Five Organization and interpersonal skills (8 competencies). Overall competency means ranged from 2.986 to 4.522. Significance tests showed thirteen (13) rejected hypotheses for the forty-three (43) competencies. The mean scores for twelve (12) of those rejected were slightly higher for those working in home-based care than for those working in a related field. The results of the study present direction for postsecondary vocational curriculum development in human behavior-related competencies important to home-based caregivers. / Graduation date: 1993

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Open University. / A book by the author, "Talking about care", based on her thesis, is also available.

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Thesis (Master)--İzmir Institute of Technology, İzmir, 2004 / Includes bibliographical references (leaves. 142).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-190). Also available online through Digital Dissertations.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1988.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1988.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-106). Also available on the Internet.