Dementia Home Care Resources: How Are We Managing?

With the number of people living with dementia expected to more than double within the next 25 years, the demand for dementia home care services will increase. In this critical ethnographic study, we drew upon interview and participant data with persons with dementia, family caregivers, in-home prov...

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Main Authors: Catherine Ward-Griffin, Jodi Hall, Ryan DeForge, Oona St-Amant, Carol McWilliam, Abram Oudshoorn, Dorothy Forbes, Marita Klosek
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Aging Research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/590724
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description With the number of people living with dementia expected to more than double within the next 25 years, the demand for dementia home care services will increase. In this critical ethnographic study, we drew upon interview and participant data with persons with dementia, family caregivers, in-home providers, and case managers in nine dementia care networks to examine the management of dementia home care resources. Three interrelated, dialectical themes were identified: (1) finite formal care-inexhaustible familial care, (2) accessible resources rhetoric-Iinaccessible resources reality, and (3) diminishing care resources-increasing care needs. The development of policies and practices that provide available, accessible, and appropriate resources, ensuring equitable, not necessarily equal, distribution of dementia care resources is required if we are to meet the goal of aging in place now and in the future.
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spelling doaj-art-3954fc98685a47a4b0f6eee481d5ccfc2025-08-20T03:55:12ZengWileyJournal of Aging Research2090-22042090-22122012-01-01201210.1155/2012/590724590724Dementia Home Care Resources: How Are We Managing?Catherine Ward-Griffin0Jodi Hall1Ryan DeForge2Oona St-Amant3Carol McWilliam4Abram Oudshoorn5Dorothy Forbes6Marita Klosek7Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario (UWO), London, ON, N6A 5C1, CanadaHealth and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Science, UWO, ON, N6A 5C1, CanadaHealth and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Science, UWO, ON, N6A 5C1, CanadaArthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario (UWO), London, ON, N6A 5C1, CanadaArthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario (UWO), London, ON, N6A 5C1, CanadaArthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario (UWO), London, ON, N6A 5C1, CanadaFaculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, AB, T6G 2R3, CanadaSchool of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, UWO, ON, N6A 5C1, CanadaWith the number of people living with dementia expected to more than double within the next 25 years, the demand for dementia home care services will increase. In this critical ethnographic study, we drew upon interview and participant data with persons with dementia, family caregivers, in-home providers, and case managers in nine dementia care networks to examine the management of dementia home care resources. Three interrelated, dialectical themes were identified: (1) finite formal care-inexhaustible familial care, (2) accessible resources rhetoric-Iinaccessible resources reality, and (3) diminishing care resources-increasing care needs. The development of policies and practices that provide available, accessible, and appropriate resources, ensuring equitable, not necessarily equal, distribution of dementia care resources is required if we are to meet the goal of aging in place now and in the future.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/590724
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