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Potential and challenges in home care service process optimization : a route optimization approach
2016
Aging of the population is an increasing problem in many countries, including Finland, and it poses a challenge to public services such as home care. Vehicle routing optimization (VRP) type optimization solutions are one possible way to decrease the time required for planning home visits and driving to customer addresses, as well as decreasing transportation costs. Although VRP optimization is widely and succesfully applied to commercial and industrial logistics, the home care is a relatively new application area for it. This thesis examines what kind of distance and time savings would be possible to achieve if daily home care operations are optimized in the similar manner as typical VRP op…
Experiences of family caregivers of persons living with dementia with and without a smart-clothes assisted home nursing program during the heightened…
2022
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has required restrictions of daily activities, which has been found to impact the lives of persons living with dementia (PLWDs) and their family caregivers, who have multiple care demands. The lack of relevant studies in Taiwan emphasized the need to explore the experiences of family caregivers of older PLWDs faced with the intensified restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19, and the impact of the availability of a smart-clothes home nursing program. Methods This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews with family caregivers of older PLWDs. Participants were recruited from dementia clinics of a medical center in northern Taiwan from a subset…
Kotiäitien käsityksiä äidin kotona olon merkityksestä lapsen kasvulle ja kehitykselle
2004
65 vuotta täyttäneiden kotihoitoasiakkaiden lääkkeiden käytön yhteys koettuun yksinäisyyteen
1999
Care Poverty Within the Home Space: Exploring the Emotional Experiences of Unmet Care Needs
2021
Older adults face inequalities in care. The concept of care poverty has been developed to point out how unmet care needs are not just an individual issue but a phenomenon linked to social and economic disadvantage and societal inequality. In this paper, we approach the question of care poverty by focusing on its intertwinement with emotions and the home space. We analyze how the presence, or more commonly absence, of care shapes interviewees’ descriptions of emotional experiences tied to the home space. Our data consists of 12 semi-structured interviews conducted in 2019 and 2020 with customers of outreach work for older adults in Finland. These customers typically face a situation that can…
Effects of Home-Based Physical Exercise on Days at Home and Cost-Effectiveness in Pre-Frail and Frail Persons: Randomized Controlled Trial.
2021
Objectives: Frailty increases the risks of hospitalization, institutionalization, and death. Our objective was to study the effects of home-based physical exercise on the number of days spent at home among pre frail and frail persons, versus usual care. In addition, utilization and costs of health care and social services, cost-effectiveness, and health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) were explored. Design: Randomized controlled trial, with year-long supervised exercise for 60 minutes twice a week versus usual care. Follow-up for 24 months after randomization. Setting and Participants: A sample of 299 home-dwelling persons in South Karelia, Finland. Main inclusion criteria: >65 years, meeti…
Muistisairaan ihmisen kokemukset teknologiasta osana arkea - turvaa vai tunkeilevuutta?
2019
Fyysisen aktiivisuuden yhteys iäkkäiden henkilöiden kotihoidon käyttöön
2010
Väestön ikääntymisellä ja siihen liittyvillä sairauksilla sekä toimintakyvyn heikkenemisellä on yhteys päivittäisten toimintojen vaikeutumiseen ja sitä kautta palvelutarpeen lisääntymiseen. Fyysisellä aktiivisuudella on kuitenkin mahdollista parantaa terveyttä ja toimintakykyä. Fyysisellä aktiivisuudella on mahdollista vähentää myös sairaala- ja laitoshoidon tarvetta sekä lääkäripalvelujen käyttömäärää. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää fyysisen aktiivisuuden yhteyttä iäkkäiden henkilöiden kotihoidon käyttöön. Aineistona käytettiin Ikivihreät-projektin haastatteluaineistoa 75-vuotiaille jyväskyläläisille vuonna 1989 (n=355). Tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin kysymyksiä, jotka käsitteli…
Caring in space: the boundaries between public and private spaces in Finnish adult foster care homes
2020
AbstractThe purpose of this article is to explore a hybrid community-based form of care for older people called adult foster care. In the article, the nature of the foster care home as a place of care is explored from the foster carers’ point-of-view. It is based on an interview study of 12 foster carers. In this article, the theoretical frameworks from human geography and work–family research are combined in order to analyse the boundaries between private family-life and public work-life in the particular space of the foster care home. The research questions are: What kinds of public and private spaces exist in adult foster care homes? What kinds of boundaries separate (a) the public and p…