ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2018
Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Managing Multiple Health Conditions.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Characterizing Caregiver Roles and Conflict in Health Management Support to Older People With Multiple Chronic Conditions.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2024Article
- Family physicians' preferences for education to support family caregivers: a sequential mixed methods study.BMC primary care · 2024Article
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- Family caregivers' preparedness to support the physical activity of patients at risk for hospital readmission in rural communities: an interpretive descriptive study.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Family caregivers' perspectives on the acceptability of four interventions proposed for rural transitional care: A multi-method study.PloS one · 2022Article
- Caregiver involvement in managing medications among older adults with multiple chronic conditions.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021Article
- Living with Long Term Conditions from the Perspective of Family Caregivers. A Scoping Review and Narrative Synthesis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Innovative Strategies to Facilitate Patient-Centered Research in Multiple Chronic Conditions.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Assessing and Addressing Family Caregivers' Needs and Risks in Primary Care.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021Article
- Dying within dyads: Stress, sense of security and support during palliative home care.PloS one · 2021Article
- Sociodemographic Factors and Characteristics of Caregivers as Determinants of Skilled Nursing Facility Admissions When Modeled Jointly With Functional Limitations.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo explore patient and caregiver experiences, preferences, and attitudes toward the provision and receipt of caregiving assistance with medical tasks.
designQualitative study consisting of in-depth interviews with 20 patient-caregiver dyads.
settingCommunity and academic-affiliated primary care clinics.
participantsIndividuals aged 65 or older with 2 or more health conditions and their family caregivers (n=20 patient-caregiver dyads). MEASUREMENTS: Open-ended questions were asked about the tasks that the patient and caregiver performed to manage the patient's health conditions; questions were designed to elicit participant reactions and attitudes toward the help they provided or received. Transcripts were analyzed using the constant comparative method.
resultsParticipant preferences and attitudes toward the receipt and provision of disease management tasks were highly personal. Participant responses clustered into 2 caregiving typologies: supportive caregiving relationships and conflicted caregiving relationships. Supportive relationships were characterized by patient-caregiver agreement about caregiver level of involvement, agreement about one another's competency to perform disease-related tasks, mutual understanding, collaborative decision-making and disease management, and use of family and formal caregiving. Conflicted relationships were characterized by disagreement about caregiver level of involvement, disagreement about one another's competency to perform disease management tasks, underappreciation of one another's experiences, disagreement over decision-making and disease management, and use of formal caregiving.
conclusionsThe views that patient-caregiver dyads expressed in this study illustrate the varied preferences and attitudes toward caregiving assistance with multiple health conditions. These findings support a dyadic approach to evaluating and addressing patient and caregiver needs and attitudes toward provision of assistance.
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