分享照顾:新加坡老年人的家庭照顾任务共享模式
Jeremy Lim-Soh1, Pildoo Sung2, Ha-Linh Quach1
1Centre for Ageing Research and Education, Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
概括
大多数老年人得到多个照顾者的照顾,而不是一个. 单身照顾者面临着更大的就业和心理健康挑战,需要有针对性的支持计划.
科学领域:
- 老年学是指老年学的学科.
- 卫生社会学 卫生社会学
- 护理工作研究 护理工作研究
背景情况:
- 家庭护理研究往往忽视了多个护理人员之间的任务共享.
- 了解各种护理安排对于支持老年人和他们的助手至关重要.
- 住宿雇佣工人是护理网络的一个重要,但未被充分研究的组成部分.
研究的目的:
- 识别老年人的多个照顾者之间的照顾者任务共享的不同模式.
- 检查与这些已识别的模式相关的护理人员和护理接收者的特征.
- 通过了解老年护理的复杂性,为政策和实践提供信息.
主要方法:
- 这项研究涉及新加坡278名家庭主要照顾家庭老年人的家庭护理人员.
- 通过采访收集的数据涉及日常生活活动,医疗服务和社会情感需求中提供的援助.
- 隐藏类分析用于辨别照顾者的任务共享模式.
主要成果:
- 三种照顾模式出现了:"共享多样性" (39%),"共享家庭" (32%) 和"单独多样性" (29%).
- "Solo-Diverse"护理人员,他们独自完成所有任务,就业的可能性较低,并且报告了更高的抑郁症状.
- 照顾者的任务共享是常见的,涉及多个人跨越各种需求.
结论:
- 照顾者的任务共享是普遍存在的,需要研究和政策超越主要照顾者的范围.
- 调查家庭和雇佣工人如何分担任务至关重要,特别是在亚洲社会.
- 单独照顾者的就业和心理健康是脆弱的,这强调了需要可访问的支持计划.
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