Using the Eco-Map and Ecosystems Perspective to Guide Skilled Nursing Facility Discharge Planning

Miller, Vivian J.; Fields, Noelle; Adorno, Gail; Smith-Osborne, Alexa

doi:10.1080/01634372.2017.1324548

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“…Also, having older adults to draw their own social eco-map allows them to have an overview of their existing social capital and reflect on how some of these relationships could be strengthen or improved. Unlike in social work profession, social eco-map is used as an assessment tool to understand client's sources of psychosocial stress and transactional relationships, aiding in development of care interventions such as discharge planning [87]. During the intervention, participants are encouraged to build their social network by establishing and maintaining new social relationships, such as making friends.…”

Section: Health-promoting Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

SHAPE: A Healthy Aging Community Project Designed Based on the Salutogenic Theory

Seah

Wang

2021

Health Promotion in Health Care – Vital Theories and Research

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Salutogenesis introduces a paradigm that requires a perceptual change towards what creates health and how health can be facilitated. Removing the lens of pathogenesis, aging is an achievement to be embraced and older people are valued as assets for their wealth of experiences, resources, skills and knowledge. From the perspectives of older adults, the concept of healthy aging is multidimensional, comprising bio-psycho-social-spiritual health. Evidence shows that sense of coherence via resistance resources promotes health outcomes among older adults. However, very few works have attempted to operationalise the salutogenic theory to promote healthy aging among older community dwellers. This chapter provides a detailed description of the Salutogenic Healthy Aging Program Embracement (SHAPE) intervention for senior-only household dwellers. SHAPE represents an application of the salutogenic concepts: sense of coherence and resistance resources. SHAPE is an integrative person-centric multi-dimensional health resource program that employs an asset-based insight-oriented approach. Illustration of examples in which how the salutogenic concepts were operationalised in developing the SHAPE intervention approach, its content, activities and the conduction of the intervention are presented.

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Section: Health-promoting Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

SHAPE: A Healthy Aging Community Project Designed Based on the Salutogenic Theory

Seah

Wang

2021

Health Promotion in Health Care – Vital Theories and Research

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“…In recent years, practitioners, researchers, and decision makers have utilized eco-maps in various ways in health services research [15,19,20]. Notably, researchers with clinical expertise have used eco-maps to generate research data within a study context [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the Landscape of Eco-Mapping in Health Services Research: A Comprehensive Review

Saragosa,

Singh,

Steele Gray

et al. 2024

Health & Social Care in the Community

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Health services research is important in improving health systems’ and providers’ efficiency and effectiveness. This may require health services to intervene at an individual and community level to address people’s complex social issues. An important issue is social connections, which have been identified as a social determinant of health and can help buffer stressful life events. Social support networks can be visualized using eco-maps, a tool that originated in child welfare practices and has been adopted widely by clinicians and researchers. This paper aims to understand where and how eco-maps have been used in health services research. To answer the research questions, this scoping review used the Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines for scoping reviews. In total, 70 studies were included in the scoping review. The authors found that social support denoted in an eco-map does not guarantee the provision of support; however, the dialogue needed to create an eco-map could facilitate conversations about care expectations, identification of vulnerable points or risk factors, and actions to improve family and individual functioning. A significant gap remains in the knowledge and use of eco-maps in identifying population service and resource gaps and how to bridge the knowledge-to-action chasm better. Further exploration is needed to examine how to optimize the application of eco-mapping in the health services context, including generating guidelines, templates, or instructions for implementation. Therefore, addressing this gap is vital for ensuring eco-mapping informs future service design and policy changes.

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“…From this theoretical framework is the ecosystems perspective that speaks to social exchanges between the person at the centre and the surrounding environment, represented by radiating and increasing distal ecosystem 13. By understanding the multiple levels of their surrounding environment—at the micro levels of the individual or family; meso-system levels in the communities; and macro-system levels of government practices, cultural norms and society—we can better understand the individual in their habitat 14. Notably, an ecosystem understanding posits a multilevel transactional focus of the person within an ever-changing and dynamic environment.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An eco-map is a simple diagrammatic depiction of the connections between the individual and the various systems indicated by drawing lines between the person and those systems 15. Since its development, eco-mapping has been used as an assessment, planning and intervention tool in child and family protection practices,16 discharge and reintegration planning,14 17 end-of-life care18 and in the context of community asset mapping 19. The eco-map has also been used as a qualitative research tool for developing more profound theoretical knowledge across a large sample 20.…”

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confidence: 99%

“… 13 By understanding the multiple levels of their surrounding environment—at the micro levels of the individual or family; meso-system levels in the communities; and macro-system levels of government practices, cultural norms and society—we can better understand the individual in their habitat. 14 Notably, an ecosystem understanding posits a multilevel transactional focus of the person within an ever-changing and dynamic environment. This also considers what social, relational and instrumental skills individuals need to manage the demands presented by their environment.…”

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Use of eco-mapping in health services research: a scoping review protocol

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IntroductionPeople with complex health and social needs often require care from different providers and services. Identifying their existing sources of support could assist with addressing potential gaps and opportunities for enhanced service delivery. Eco-mapping is an approach used to visually capture people’s social relationships and their linkages to the larger social systems. As it is an emerging and promising approach in the health services field, a scoping review on eco-mapping is warranted. This scoping review aims to synthesise the empirical literature that has focused on the application of eco-mapping by describing characteristics, populations, methodological approaches and other features of eco-mapping in health services research.Methods and analysisThis scoping review will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. From the date of database construction to 16 January 2023, the following databases in English will be searched: Ovid Medline, Ovid Embase, CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost), Emcare (Ovid), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Ovid) and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Ovid) Study/Source of Evidence selection. The inclusion criteria consist of empirical literature that uses eco-mapping or a related tool in the context of health services research. Two researchers will independently screen references against inclusion and exclusion criteria using Covidence software. Once screened, the data will be extracted and organised according to the following research questions: (1) What research questions and phenomena of interest do researchers address when using eco-mapping? (2) What are the characteristics of studies that use eco-mapping in health services research? (3) What are the methodological considerations for eco-mapping in health services research?Ethics and disseminationThis scoping review does not require ethical approval. The findings will be disseminated through publications, conference presentations and stakeholder meetings.Trial registration numberhttps://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GAWYN.

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Using the Eco-Map and Ecosystems Perspective to Guide Skilled Nursing Facility Discharge Planning

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

SHAPE: A Healthy Aging Community Project Designed Based on the Salutogenic Theory

SHAPE: A Healthy Aging Community Project Designed Based on the Salutogenic Theory

Exploring the Landscape of Eco-Mapping in Health Services Research: A Comprehensive Review

Use of eco-mapping in health services research: a scoping review protocol

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