Developing a person-centered, population based measure of "home time": Perspectives of older patients and unpaid caregivers.

ABSTRACT: Measuring "home time," number of days not in facility-based care, with medical claims is a promising approach to assess person-centered outcomes on a population level. Generally, spending more time at home matches long-term care preferences and improves quality of life. However, existing "home time" measures have not incorporated key stakeholder perspectives. We sought to understand how patients and family caregivers value time spent in diverse facility-based health care settings (Emergency Department, Nursing Home, Post-Acute Care/Skilled Nursing, Inpatient Hospital) to help determine whether various settings have different effects on quality of life and thus merit different weighting in a "home time" measure. We conducted three focus groups among patients and family caregivers within the

SUBMITTER: Sperber NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10442891 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature