Different views on collaboration between older persons, informal caregivers and care professionals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Informal care features high on the policy agenda of many countries to deal with workforce shortages. As a consequence, care provision increasingly takes place in the care triad of care recipients, informal caregivers and care professionals. How collaboration between care partners takes shape depends on how the different partners perceive this collaboration. This paper aims to investigate the relative importance of the different aspects of collaboration from the perspectives of care recipients, informal caregivers and care professionals in the context of the care for older persons in The Netherlands.

Methods

Using Q-methodology, 32 participants ranked 28 statements that reflect different aspects of collaboration in the care triad and explained their ranking during

SUBMITTER: van Muijden T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11196834 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature