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Tetley, Josephine; Grant, Gordon and Davies, Susan
(2009).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732309344175
Abstract
Despite the availability of health and social care services designed to support people in their own homes, older people often under-use or refuse these. It is now acknowledged that this phenomenon contributes to older people being admitted to hospital and long-term care in circumstances that could be avoided. In order to understand how the uptake of supportive and preventative services can be improved the first author (JT), supervised by GG and SD, developed a constructivist inquiry to explore what factors enhance or bar service use. This paper describes how narratives were used not only to help indentify decision- and choice-making influences, but also as a way of enhancing the hermeneutic processes associated with constructivism.
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- 16183
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1552-7557
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- constructivism; health care; decision-making; hermeneutics; narrative methods; older people; social services, utilization
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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) - Copyright Holders
- © 2009 The Authors
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- Josie Tetley