ArticlePloS one2020
Do factors across the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health framework relate to caregiver availability for community-dwelling older adults in Ghana?
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- Why do spouses provide personal care? A study among care-receiving Dutch community-dwelling older adults.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Understanding older adults' functioning and health-seeking behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana: A descriptive qualitative study.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
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- "Who doesn't Have Challenges? I Have a Lot of Challenges": Exploring the Challenges and Coping Strategies of Neglected Older Adults in Ghana.Journal of cross-cultural gerontology · 2021Article
- Correlates of older adult inpatients' personal care provision to people with functional difficulties in Ghana.PloS one · 2020Article
- Social Networks in Limbo. The Experiences of Older Adults During COVID-19 in Ghana.Frontiers in public healthArticle
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Abstract
introductionIn Ghana, the care needs of older adults in the later years has become a critical issue given population ageing and increased proportions of older adults with difficulties with functional abilities. However, factors related to caregiver availability is unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine how the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (WHO-ICF) framework relates to caregiver availability for community-dwelling older adults in Ghana. This evidence will strengthen our understanding of the perceived unmet care needs of older adults in Ghana in Africa. MATERIALS AND
methodsA hospital-based survey was conducted among 400 consecutively recruited older adult in-patients using a questionnaire at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in southern Ghana. Multivariate logistic regression tested associations between caregiver availability and other factors as related to the WHO-ICF conceptual framework.
resultsEighty-six per cent of the participants reported having an available caregiver. In the final parsimonious model, the environmental factors were highly related to caregiver availability, seconded by personal factors, and then health conditions. Body function and structure, activity, and participation variables were not statistically significant. Overall, the variables that were associated with caregiver availability were age, being a widow, having a single chronic condition, being hardly understood by friends and family, receiving no neighbourhood support, and having 2-4 children. Interaction existed between being a widow and living as a couple in relation to caregiver availability.
conclusionsCaregiver availability is associated with variables under the personal, health and environmental components of the WHO-ICF. Increased effort to strengthen the current and future welfare programs, including the health of older adults and their caregivers is relevant.
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