Care-Related Quality of Life in Old Age (eBook)

Concepts, Models, and Empirical Findings

Marja Vaarama, Richard Pieper, Andrew Sixsmith (Herausgeber)

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2007 | 2008
XIV, 338 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-72169-9 (ISBN)

Infos

It's a core issue at the heart of elder care: while best-practice data exist for long-term care, quality of life as a concept, measure and standard for care outcomes remains elusive. The result of an ambitious European research initiative, the Care Keys Project addresses quality of life issues among frail, care-dependent seniors, taking their social as well as health needs into account. This resulting volume explains the theory behind Care Keys, its methodology, empirical findings, and practical considerations in promoting effective, efficient elder care aimed at social and emotional well-being and including disabled and cognitively impaired patients.

Marja Vaarama is Professor of Social Work and Social Gerontology at the University of Lapland, Finland. Her areas of research include quality of life in old age, quality and performance of long-term care for older people, gerontological social work, information technology for planning, evaluation and management of long term care for older people. She is the co-ordinator of the EU-funded Care Keys research project.

Richard Pieper is Professor of Urban Studies and Social Planning at the University of Bamberg, Germany. His main fields of research are in theory of social and regional integration and collective identity, and aging and technology, elderly care planning, and social and health care systems.

Andrew Sixsmith is Lecturer in Social Gerontology in the Department of Primary Care at the University of Liverpool. His current research interests focus on new technologies to facilitate the delivery of community health and welfare services.

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The ageing of populations across the world poses a crucial challenge for the twenty-first century. Society faces three major changes: firstly, increasing numbers of active older people demanding new social structures and oppor- nities; secondly, increasing numbers of frail or disabled older people requiring new interventions and improved health and social care with resulting economic consequences; and finally complex economic, technological, organisational and social challenges involved in the ageing of society. If society wants to benefit from these changes, innovative social, organisational and technological responses are needed. This book presents the findings of the Care Keys project-"e;Keys for Quality Performance Management of the Care of Older Persons in Europe"e;-and is an example of how research can respond to the challenges outlined above. Care Keys was the fruit of European Union research funding, made possible under the Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources specific programme 1 (1998-2002) under the EC's Fifth Framework Programme for Research, Te- nological Development and Demonstration. The activity promoting such research was Key Action 6 on the "e;Ageing Population and their Disabilities"e;.

Inhalt

Foreword 6
Preface 8
Contents 12
Research Framework 14
The General Framework and Methods of the Care Keys Research 15
Instrumentation of the Care Keys Research 31
Care Keys Data and Statistical Methods 57
Theoretical Results 74
The Concept of Care-Related Quality of Life 75
The Concept of Quality of Long- Term Care 112
Quality Management in Long- Term Care 135
Empirical Results 161
Subjective Quality of Life of Care- Dependent Older People in Five European Union Countries 162
Quality of Life of Older Homecare Clients 177
Quality of Life in Institutional Care 205
Quality of Life and Dementia 226
The Target Efficiency of Care— Models and Analyses 243
Quality Management and the Care Keys Quality Matrix 264
The Care Keys Toolkit 290
Summary 308
Care-Related Quality of Life: An Overview 309
Subject Index 335

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2007
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 338 p. 96 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Age • dementia • Efficiency • Elderly and health care • Geriatrics • Gerontology • Health Care • Life models • Old age • patients • quality • quality of life
• ISBN-10: 0-387-72169-X / 038772169X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-72169-9 / 9780387721699