Relationship Between Nursing Students’ Attitudes Toward Elderly Discrimination and Opinions About Home Care Services

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meltem Meriç ◽  
Gül Ergün ◽  
Ganna Pola ◽  
Meral Dölek ◽  
Burcu Totur Dikmen ◽  
...  

The determination of nursing students’ attitudes toward elderly discrimination and their opinions about home care is important in that it will affect the quality of care provided to elderly individuals in their homes by the students in the future. For this reason, the aim of this study was to determine relationship between nursing students’ attitudes toward elderly discrimination and their opinions about home care services. This descriptive study was conducted with a total of 318 students from a university nursing faculty during the fall semester of the 2016-2017 academic year. Data for the study were collected using the Home Care Services Evaluation Questionnaire and the Ageism Attitude Scale. It was found that there was a positively significant but weak relationship between the students’ age discrimination scale total score and the positive discrimination subdimension score, and their opinions about home care services ( p < .001). Students’ attitudes toward elderly discrimination were found to make a statistically significant contribution to their opinions about home care services. It was ascertained that students’ attitudes toward elderly discrimination affected their opinions about home care services. It is recommended that geriatric nursing and home care nursing lectures be included in the nursing education curriculum, awareness of the importance of the concept of old age and elderly care be increased by establishing internship fields for students in institutions that provide home care for the elderly, and positive attitudes toward the elderly be promoted.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumini ◽  
Sukamdi ◽  
Evita Hanie Pangaribowo ◽  
Yeremias T. Keban ◽  
Muhadjir Darwin

Elderly care services are important to provide in response to the rapid growth of the elderly population. In developing countries like Indonesia, the speed of growth of the elderly population does not simultaneously occur, so the needs for care services vary. This study discusses the emergence of home care services in response to the increase in elderly population. By taking the case of community home care services in Sleman, this study found the pattern and process of the emergence of local initiatives in home care services. This study also revealed an important factor affecting the implementation of community home care services, that is, leadership.



2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Lamia A. Awad ◽  
Zainab Hassan Hassan Osman ◽  
Safaa Abdlazem Osman

Background: Nursing positions for older students can affect the quality of care provided to them. The values, perceptions, and beliefs of health care nurses towards the elderly are considered among the underlying causes of prejudice against the elderly.Objective: This study aimed to study the effect of intervention program on the attitudes of students towards Ageism.Methodology: The study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing -MansouraUniversity using semi-experimental design with prior evaluation of the other to conduct this study. A total number of 110 nursing students attendingMansouraUniversity were included in the study. A self-administered questionnaire and the educational background on aging and care of the elderly using the attitude of Kogan towards the elderly scale were used. A structured educational intervention with gerontology content for students was designed and implemented to raise students ' knowledge, and improve their attitudes toward the ageism. The study was conducted from February 2016 to May 2016.Results: There was a statistically significant difference in total score of negative attitude scale items before and after implementation of gerontology nursing course.Conclusion & recommendation: The educational intervention with gerontology content is valuable in humanizing nursing students' negative attitude toward the ageism. Nurse educators strengthen gerontological content in the nursing curriculum and provide tailored nursing education to reduce ageism among professional nurses as well as dissemination of educational intervention with gerontology content to other nursing students in all specialties inEgypt for further confirmation of the findings.



2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Yi-Luo Wang ◽  
Ying Duan ◽  
Ying Zhang

With the increase of the aging of the population in china, the demand of the elderly continues to increase, which has brought great challenges to the elderly care service industry. As a new type of elderly care service, home-based care services directly affect the quality of the elderly&rsquo;s health and daily life in their later years. Therefore, improving the product and quality of elderly care services has become the goal and purpose of the development of home-based care service for aged. This article uses Cite Space software to perform visual analysis of keyword clustering on existing literature, and concludes that scholars focus on the integration of medical care, social elderly care service system, service quality, and influencing factors, but the impact of service quality models and indicator systems is low. Then through the integration and induction of scholars&rsquo; research progress on home care services, existing problems in service quality, and service quality evaluation index systems, in order to continue to innovate on the basis of existing knowledge, improve the service quality index system, and focus on combing process indicators with outcome indicators effectively, thereby improving the quality of community home care services.



2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merve ÇAYIR YILMAZ ◽  
Fatma Zehra İNCE

Background: Perceptions of individuals and society about the elderly are reflected in the services provided to them.  These reflections might be revealed   in various fields such as health care services and sufficient job opportunities, or they could be revealed in the issue of discrimination against the elderly, which is a problem emerging in advanced ages.Objective: This study aims to identify the relationship between nursing and elderly care program students’ attitudes towards ageism.Methods: This study, which is descriptive and relational method, was conducted between November and December, 2016. The participants were 220 students. The data were collected through a questionnaire, and the Ageism Attitude Scale, and were analyzed using t-test, two-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).  Findings: Results show that the students generally had positive attitudes towards ageism. Nursing department students received significantly higher scores in the Limiting the Elderly Person’s Life sub-dimension and Ageism Attitude Scale in comparison to Elderly Care Program students.  3rd year nursing department students had higher scores in the Ageism Attitudes Scale in comparison to 1st and 2nd year nursing department students and students in the Elderly Care Program. “Positive Discrimination towards the Elderly” sub-dimension and the “Ageism Attitudes Scale” total scores were found to be significantly higher in nursing department students according to the variable of desire to work in a geriatric service in the future. (p<0.05).Conclusion: This study found that students had positive attitudes towards ageism, and nursing students’ Ageism Attitudes Scale mean scores were higher than those of elderly care program students. More comprehensive studies are needed in order to improve students’ attitudes towards elderly people.



2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 414-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Wollscheid ◽  
John Eriksen ◽  
Jørgen Hallvik


1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kam-fong Monit Cheung


Author(s):  
Teemu Rantanen ◽  
Teppo Leppälahti ◽  
Jaakko Porokuokka ◽  
Sari Heikkinen

Technological advances in elderly care have been rapid, and the introduction of robots in care will be a topical issue in the near future. There has been little research into the possibility of influencing care workers’ attitudes towards robots by project activities, and how to make the change easier for work communities. This study focuses on a robotics project that took place in elderly and home care services in one municipality in Finland (total of 45 care workers). During the project, four robotics workshops and one extended pilot session were implemented. The study follows quasi-experimental settings, and it included two measurements (before and after project activities) and a control group, but no randomization. The data were collected by questionnaires and were analyzed statistically. The project under study brought about minor positive changes in home care workers’ attitudes towards the usefulness of care robots. In the final measurement, the difference between the test group and the control group was significant in the two dimensions of positive attitudes. The research supports the hypothesis that project activities can be used to influence home care workers’ attitudes towards robots. This can also facilitate the introduction of care robots in home care services. However, the construction of a technology-positive care culture is a long-term process, which requires training and development, technological development and strong strategic management at various levels.



Author(s):  
Sandra J. Crowell ◽  
Kenneth Rockwood ◽  
Paul Stolee ◽  
Sharon K. Buehler ◽  
Bonnie M. James ◽  
...  

RÉSUMÉBut: Comparer au moyen d'un plan d'étude transversale les caractéristiques démographiques et fonctionnelles des utilisateurs âgés et des non-utilisateurs de services de soins à domicile dans les centres urbains de la Nouvelle-Écosse (n = 533) et de la Terre-Neuve (n = 449).Résultats: Plus de Néo-Écossais et Néo-Écossaises (24%) que de Terre-Neuviens et Terre-Neuviennes (11%) reçoivent des services de soins à domicile. Dans les deux provinces, la plupart des gens dépendants par rapport aux activités de la vie quotidienne (AVQ) ne reçoivent pas des services de soins à domicile, et la plupart des utilisateurs de soins à domicile n'ont pas de dépendence par rapport aux AVQ. À Terre-Neuve, la dépendence et la démence sont plus fréquentes chez les utilisateurs de soins à domicile, contrairement aux utilisateurs en Nouvelle-Écosse ou le fait d'avoir 85 ans ou plus, de ne pas avoir de soutien dans la même habitation, de ne pas être marié et d'être limité par rapport aux activitiés instrumentales de la vie quotidienne (ATVQ) a pour conséquence une augmentation importante de la probabilité d'utilisation de soins à domicile. À Terre-Neuve, la tendance à recourir à des soins à domicile est plus forte chez les gens ayant une dépendence par rapport aux AIVQ.Conclusions: Si les soins à domicile doivent se substituer à des soins en établissement, il faut être prêt à adapter à un nouveau type d'utilisateur les programmes existants de soins à domicile.



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