Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Loeb, Susan J.
• Penrod, Janice
• Falkenstern, Sharon
• Gueldner, Sarah Hall
• Poon, Leonard W.

Titel

Supporting Older Adults Living With Multiple Chronic Conditions

Ist Teil von

• Western journal of nursing research, 2003-02, Vol.25 (1), p.8-29

Ort / Verlag

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This qualitative study was conducted using focus groups to explore the strategies commonly employed by older adults (N = 37) to manage multiple chronic conditions. Key strategies identified were relating with health care providers, medicating, exercising, changing dietary patterns, seeking information, relying on spirituality and∕or religion, and engaging in life. Although social support was not mentioned as a discrete strategy, the participants’ social networks were embedded in all of the categories. This study supports building a partnership of care in which nurses and other health care professionals function in supportive and educative roles to enhance the older person’s lifelong self-care management and ability to stay in control of multiple chronic health conditions.