Morale and quality of life among frail older users of community care: Key issues for the success of community care

Abstract

Recent years have seen growing interest in service users' views as a source of guidance for service development. This paper reports findings about quality of life from a programme of in-depth interviews with older users of community care, which had been designed to supply guidance for improving local services. One reason for wider interest is that interview methods were tailored to reach very frail older people, who are an increasing proportion of the home care clientele owing to national changes in service targeting (Godfrey, 1999) but hard to reach through conventional 30

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