Nursing and Aging

Powers, Bethel Ann

doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2031-6_4

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“…Generation of this typology was only a portion of a larger study that described the sociocultural context of respite care to include the skilled nursing facility, nursing staff, caregivers, and care recipients. Powers (1990) relates that nursing and anthropology interface along specific historical boundaries marked by a holistic approach to subject matter, attention to participant or client points of view, and a production of qualitative data through sustained participant observation in natural or clinical settings. Powers continues with a suggestion that the "caring for" and "being with" emphasis of nurse-client and family interactions is closely related to the participant observation method used by anthropologists.…”

Section: Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Typology of Consumers of Institutional Respite Care

Smyer

Chang

1999

Clin Nurs Res

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In this descriptive ethnography, a typology of consumers of institutional respite care and phases of respite care were formulated from the data collected over a 1-year period at a 24-bed hospital-based skilled nursing facility in the western United States. The sample was drawn from facility billing records, which verified the type of care under the term respite care. Using anthropological fieldwork methods, data were obtained from 14 caregiving dyads plus two care recipients who did not have family caregivers. The identified caregiver categories were depletion, maintenance, caregiver surgery or illness, and no available family caregiver. Phases of respite care provided information regarding the caregivers' experience in the process of decision making, transitioning to time away from the care recipient, and postrespite adjustment. This model has implications for the structure and process of respite care design and decision making. This may provide a promising avenue in the respite care research arena.

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Section: Designmentioning

confidence: 99%