Building trust between the older adults and researchers in qualitative inquiry.
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Louise P Gallagher
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Community support: older adults' perceptions.
The purpose of this inquiry was to determine older adults' perceptions of facilitators and barriers in their use of community support. A descriptive, exploratory design was used incorporating focus group methodology. Fifteen participants were recruited in two separate senior citizen housing complexes, 10 in one building and 5 in the second. All participants were 65 years of age and older, alert, oriented, and English speaking. Systematic content analysis of the focus groups revealed two general categories: knowledge and systems. Under each category, facilitators and barriers were identified. Knowledge facilitators included life experiences and learning from one another. A major knowledge barrier was lack of awareness. A system facilitator was caring connections. System barriers included complex connections, pseudoconnections, superficial connections, and cookie cutter connections. The data suggest the need for additional research to further clarify these facilitators and barriers. The information obtained from this research will be a beginning step in the development of supportive intervention strategies for assisting older adults as they live in their home communities.
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Using the seven A's to determine older adults' community resource needs.
Home care agencies cannot succeed under Medicare PPS unless clinicians efficiently assess and appropriately refer the elderly to community support systems. This article outlines how using the Seven A's (awareness, accessibility, affordability, appropriateness, adequacy, acceptability, and availability) can help nurses and agencies effectively determine the fit between older adults and community support agencies.
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Using the "Seven A's" assessment tool for developing competency in case management.
In the latter part of the 20th century, healthcare reform sparked a transition in the nursing curriculum from acute care to primary and secondary care. Faculty responded to this challenge by redesigning curricula in creative ways. The transitional curriculum introduced community clinical experiences designed to challenge students to practice in diverse, nontraditional sites and in more independent ways. Such practice requires the nurse to function as designer, coordinator, and manager of patient care in addition to the traditional provider role. Additionally, the transitional curricula emphasized the roles of communicator, educator, facilitator, listener, and advocate to a greater degree. For students to achieve competence in the above roles, the curriculum must include learning activities that allow them to practice as case managers in the community. This paper presents the "Seven A's" as a framework for students to gain an understanding of and engage in the role and process of case management in the community.
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