Soodeen Ruth-Ann, Gregory David, Bond John B
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada.
Qual Health Res. 2007 Nov;17(9):1245-55. doi: 10.1177/1049732307307339.
In this article, the authors explore the home care experience as described by older physically impaired individuals and their caregiving spouses. Separate face-to-face semistructured interviews were carried out with each spouse from nine couples. Analysis of the interview data revealed four themes. For care receivers the themes were Independence and Developing a Trusting Relationship With Home Care Workers. Relief and Continuity were voiced by the caregiving spouses. The authors show how these themes relate to the participants' sense of security, which emerged as a key underlying concept in the home care experience. This study adds to the home care and caregiving literature as it expands our understanding of the relationship between formal and informal caregiving, highlights issues and concerns older couples face as they receive home-based care, and includes both older spouse caregivers and their direct-care recipients.
在本文中，作者探讨了身体有残障的老年人及其作为照料者的配偶所描述的居家护理体验。对九对夫妻中的每位配偶分别进行了面对面的半结构化访谈。对访谈数据的分析揭示了四个主题。对于受照料者而言，主题是“独立性”以及“与居家护理人员建立信任关系”。照料配偶们提到的主题是“解脱”和“连续性”。作者展示了这些主题如何与参与者的安全感相关联，而安全感是居家护理体验中一个关键的潜在概念。这项研究丰富了居家护理和照料方面的文献，因为它扩展了我们对正式和非正式照料之间关系的理解，突出了老年夫妻在接受居家护理时面临的问题和担忧，并且涵盖了老年配偶照料者及其直接护理对象。
