Community Preferences for Allied Health Services in Residential Aged Care.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Exploring health consumer preferences in care is an essential foundational, and ongoing activity, when designing and delivering models of care. We undertook a study to explore: (i) what allied health (AH) services are most important to health consumers and (ii) how health consumers expect to access these services in residential aged care (RAC) to determine consumer priorities in future AH models of care in RAC.

Methods

A mixed method study was conducted with aged care residents and community members (friends or family of residents/people who believe they may use RAC services). The study comprised two focus-group activities where participants were asked to (1) rank the AH services most important to them and then (2) categorise how they would prefer to access each

SUBMITTER: Meulenbroeks I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11519699 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature