Design, implementation and evaluation of informal home care support intervention program for lonely older adults in the community: Protocol for a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing lonely older adults with informal home care services is important to improving their health and quality of life. The study aims to evaluate the feasibility of design, implementation and evaluation of an informal home care support intervention program (HoSIP) for community-dwelling lonely older adults in Gorgan, Iran.

Method/design

This feasibility study is a mixed-method with a concurrent nested design. Lonely older adults will be enrolled as the HoSIP intervention group and will receive 12-weeks of informal home care service by peer supporters. The purpose of this feasibility study is to determine the recruitment capability and resulting sample characteristics, data collection procedure and outcome measures, the acceptability and suitability of the inte

SUBMITTER: Lotfalinezhad E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9432751 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature