Older people's experience of utilisation and administration of medicines in a health- and social care context
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2015
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Resumo |
BACKGROUND: People living at home who lack ability to manage their medicine are entitled to assistance to improve adherence provided by a home care assistant employed by social care. AIM: The aim was to describe how older people with chronic diseases, living at home, experience the use and assistance of administration of medicines in the context of social care. DESIGN: A qualitative descriptive study. METHODS: Ten participants (age 65+) living at home were interviewed in the participants' own homes. Latent content analysis was used. FINDINGS: The assistance eases daily life with regard to practical matters and increases adherence to a medicine regimen. There were mixed feelings about being dependent on assistance; it interferes with self-sufficiency at a time of health transition. Participants were balancing empowerment and a dubious perception of the home care assistants' knowledge of medicine and safety. Physicians' and district nurses' professional knowledge was a safety guarantee for the medicine process. CONCLUSIONS: Assistance eases daily life and medicine regimen adherence. Dependence on assistance may affect self-sufficiency. Perceived safety varied relating to home care assistants' knowledge of medicine. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: A well-functioning medicine assistance is crucial to enable older people to remain at home. A person-centred approach to health- and social care delivery is efficient and improve outcome for the recipient of care. |
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application/pdf |
Identificador |
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-21575 doi:10.1111/scs.12207 PMID 25648845 |
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eng |
Publicador |
Sophiahemmet Högskola Sophiahemmet Högskola Sophiahemmet Högskola Mälardalens högskola |
Relação |
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 0283-9318, 2015, 29:4, s. 760-768 |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Palavras-Chave | #Assistance #Medicine administration at home #Medicine use #Older people #Social care #Nursing #Omvårdnad |
Tipo |
Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text |