Making the Decision to Stay at Home: Developing a Community-Based Care Process Model for Aging in Place

Katarina Galof and Zvone Balantič
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Katarina Galof: Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Zvone Balantič: Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 11, 1-11

Abstract: The care of older adults who wish to spend their old age at home should be regulated in every country. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the steps for developing a community-based care process model (CBCPM), applied to a real-world phenomenon, using an inductive, theory-generative research approach to enable aging at home. The contribution to practice is that the collaboration team experts facilitate the application of the process in their own work as non-professional human resources. This means that each older adult is his or her own case study. Different experts and non-experts can engage in the process of meeting needs as required. The empirical work examined the number of levels and steps required and the types of human resources needed. The proposed typology of the CBCPM for older adults can provide insight, offer a useful framework for future policy development, and evaluate pilots at a time when this area of legislation is being implemented.

Keywords: independent functioning of older adults; home and community-based providers; health care; framework; spiral model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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