Abstract
Background: Through the last 35 years, ‘client involvement’ has been a mantra within health policies, education curriculums and health care institutions, yet very little is known about how ‘client involvement’ is practiced in the meetings with clients and health professionals.
Aim: To analyse and discuss ‘client involvement’ in action from the perspectives of healthcare professionals, elderly and their relatives in a home care setting in relation to the rules of the political, administrative system.
Method: Sociological pilot field study consisting of three weeks’ observation and interviews with one client, his cohabitant family and the involved healthcare professionals.
Results: Client involvement in home care service is shown within the constructed categories: The schism between wishing for and actually being helped; The chronological order can be negotiated; not the content; Liberal business gives the client full influence into the treatment and the therapist gold; and Converting a home to at working place and a home. Client involvement in practice seems to be very limited.
Conclusion: All in all, involvement of clients in home care service seems to be more of a political illusion than a practical reality. The hypothetic results will be challenged in the main study
Aim: To analyse and discuss ‘client involvement’ in action from the perspectives of healthcare professionals, elderly and their relatives in a home care setting in relation to the rules of the political, administrative system.
Method: Sociological pilot field study consisting of three weeks’ observation and interviews with one client, his cohabitant family and the involved healthcare professionals.
Results: Client involvement in home care service is shown within the constructed categories: The schism between wishing for and actually being helped; The chronological order can be negotiated; not the content; Liberal business gives the client full influence into the treatment and the therapist gold; and Converting a home to at working place and a home. Client involvement in practice seems to be very limited.
Conclusion: All in all, involvement of clients in home care service seems to be more of a political illusion than a practical reality. The hypothetic results will be challenged in the main study
| Bidragets oversatte titel | Involvering af clienten i hjemmeplejen - hvem tilpasser sig hvem og hvad? |
|---|---|
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
| Publikationsdato | 2011 |
| Antal sider | 25 |
| Status | Udgivet - 2011 |
| Begivenhed | EASA Conference on Medical Pluralism: Techniques, Politics, Institutions. - Rom, Italien Varighed: 7 sep. 2011 → 10 sep. 2011 |
Konference
| Konference | EASA Conference on Medical Pluralism: Techniques, Politics, Institutions. |
|---|---|
| Land/Område | Italien |
| By | Rom |
| Periode | 07/09/11 → 10/09/11 |
Emneord
- elderly
- field study
- home care
- involvement
- neoliberalism