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Article

Descriptive Study on the Implication of Families in the Care of Institutionalized Elde

by
Mª del Carmen Pérez Dorado
1,*,
Rocío Romero Serrano
2,
Mª Socorro Morillo Martín
2 and
José Mª Galán González-Serna
2
1
Residencia de Mayores San Juan de Dios. C/ Pompeyo, 1, 3º D. C.P.: 41900. Camas, Sevilla (España)
2
Centro Universitario de Enfermería San Juan de Dios, Universidad de Sevilla (España)
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Eur. J. Investig. Health Psychol. Educ. 2014, 4(3), 203-213; https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe4030019
Submission received: 14 April 2014 / Revised: 26 May 2014 / Accepted: 16 August 2014 / Published: 16 August 2014

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to know the involvement in the care of families in Home for the Elderly of San St John of God in Seville. This is a pilot quantitative, descriptive and observational study. After a process of non-probability has formed a convenience sample of 20 relatives of elderly residents, including 5 are men and 15 are women. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaire "Scale-Zarit caregiver burden" and data analysis has been made by the SPSS 15.0 statistical program. Administered questionnaires, all agree that most of the care of the elderly is performed by the medical personnel of the residence, which implies that the results aren´t overloaded. And they claim that the informal support of the elderly doesn´t cease with the institutionalization. The involvements of family members in nursing homes meet the objective of having a collaborative role, in which the family is the memory and the voice of the elderly by the passage of time or by the disease who have they can´t answer questions as they arise for health professionals.
Keywords: Institutionalization; caregivers; elderly; family; geriatric nursing Institutionalization; caregivers; elderly; family; geriatric nursing

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Pérez Dorado, M.d.C.; Romero Serrano, R.; Morillo Martín, M.S.; González-Serna, J.M.G. Descriptive Study on the Implication of Families in the Care of Institutionalized Elde. Eur. J. Investig. Health Psychol. Educ. 2014, 4, 203-213. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe4030019

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Pérez Dorado MdC, Romero Serrano R, Morillo Martín MS, González-Serna JMG. Descriptive Study on the Implication of Families in the Care of Institutionalized Elde. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education. 2014; 4(3):203-213. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe4030019

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Pérez Dorado, Mª del Carmen, Rocío Romero Serrano, Mª Socorro Morillo Martín, and José Mª Galán González-Serna. 2014. "Descriptive Study on the Implication of Families in the Care of Institutionalized Elde" European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education 4, no. 3: 203-213. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe4030019

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