The purpose of the study was to learn more about the ways in which caregivers
perceive the effects of adult day services. The goal was to help inform adult day
providers about services family caregivers find useful. An ecological model was used as a
framework. Data were collected from focus groups consisting of spouse and nonspouse
family caregivers of past and current participants in two different program models of
adult day services: adult day care and adult day health services.
There were few differences in the way caregivers of past and current participants
perceived adult day services. One major difference was that some caregivers of past
participants perceived that the programs had failed to provide support to them after their
family member passed away. Although spouse and nonspouse caregivers used adult day
services for different reasons, the main reason reported by both was to keep their family
member active. The perceptions of caregivers using the adult day care model differed
little from those of caregivers who used adult day health services. One difference was
that some caregivers saw the staff at the adult day care center as role models who taught
them how to care for and accept dependent family members.
Talking to family caregivers about their experiences with adult day services can
provide practitioners with valuable insights about the services and activities that family
caregivers find useful and those they may need to assist them in their efforts to care for
impaired family members. Adult day providers need to understand what effect services
and activities have on caregivers and family members to enable them to create programs
that benefit both. / Graduation date: 2001
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/32536 |
| Date | 25 April 2001 |
| Creators | Patterson, Susan L. |
| Contributors | Walker, Alexis J., Richards, Leslie |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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