"Helping fill that gap:" a qualitative study of aging in place after disaster through the lens of home-based care providers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During a disaster, home-based care fills the critical need for continuation of health care. Home-based care is intended to function using existing care delivery models, continuing to provide care for patients wherever they are located, including in shelters and hotels. Home-based care providers are often the closest in contact with their patients -seeing them in place, even throughout a disaster- through which they develop a unique insight into aging in place during a disaster. The purpose of this study was to identify individual and community-level support needs of older adults after a disaster through the lens of home-based care providers.

Methods

Using qualitative inquiry, five focus groups were conducted with home-based care providers (n = 25) who provided in-

SUBMITTER: Bell SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8033697 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature