A qualitative study of patient-centered goal-setting in geriatric rehabilitation: patient and professional perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Objective:

To characterize how rehabilitation goals of older patients change over time and to explore professionals' attitudes toward patient-centered goal-setting and their perspectives on rehabilitation goals.

Design:

Qualitative interview study.

Setting:

Three geriatric rehabilitation centers.

Subjects:

Ten patients (aged ⩾ 80), who had recently received inpatient geriatric rehabilitation, and seven professionals were purposively recruited.

Methods:

Semi-structured interviews. Patients were interviewed in the third or fourth week after discharge from inpatient rehabilitation, to reflect on their inpatient goals and to investigate long-term goals now that they were at home. A thematic analysis was performed.

Results:

During inpatient rehabilitat

SUBMITTER: van Seben R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6311617 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature