Fear and overprotection in Australian residential aged care facilities: The inadvertent impact of regulation on quality continence care. Ostaszkiewicz, J., O'Connell, B., & Dunning, T. Australasian journal on ageing, AJA Inc, 9, 2015.
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AIM: Most residents in residential aged care facilities are incontinent. This study explored how continence care was provided in residential aged care facilities, and describes a subset of data about staffs' beliefs and experiences of the quality framework and the funding model on residents' continence care. METHODS: Using grounded theory methodology, 18 residential aged care staff members were interviewed and 88 hours of field observations conducted in two facilities. Data were analysed using a combination of inductive and deductive analytic procedures. RESULTS: Staffs' beliefs and experiences about the requirements of the quality framework and the funding model fostered a climate of fear and risk adversity that had multiple unintended effects on residents' continence care, incentivising dependence on continence management, and equating effective continence care with effective pad use. CONCLUSION: There is a need to rethink the quality of continence care and its measurement in Australian residential aged care facilities.
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 abstract = {AIM: Most residents in residential aged care facilities are incontinent. This study explored how continence care was provided in residential aged care facilities, and describes a subset of data about staffs' beliefs and experiences of the quality framework and the funding model on residents' continence care. METHODS: Using grounded theory methodology, 18 residential aged care staff members were interviewed and 88 hours of field observations conducted in two facilities. Data were analysed using a combination of inductive and deductive analytic procedures. RESULTS: Staffs' beliefs and experiences about the requirements of the quality framework and the funding model fostered a climate of fear and risk adversity that had multiple unintended effects on residents' continence care, incentivising dependence on continence management, and equating effective continence care with effective pad use. CONCLUSION: There is a need to rethink the quality of continence care and its measurement in Australian residential aged care facilities.},
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