Teaming up to traverse loneliness: a co-creative journey toward a home care work model for supporting social participation among older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Participatory research is particularly suitable in adressing know-do gaps in health systems. There is a disparity between what is known about the benefits of social participation and home care's responsibility to provide conditions amenable to older adults' social participation, and what is accomplished in home care practice. Home care workers are a large, low-power group, whose competences should be better harnessed. We carried out a participatory action research (PAR) project with the goal of generating an improved structure for identifying and alleviating loneliness. This article aims to explore the co-creative process of designing a work model that guides home care workers in supporting social participation among older care recipients.

Methods

Multimodal data

SUBMITTER: Nordin T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9476274 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature