Evaluation of an In Home Health Care Instructural Program in Northwestern Oklahoma

Abstract

This study was developed to determine opionions of the providers of in home health care,the effectiveness of the information presented in the instructional program in helping them to give optimum care to a geriatric aged perso~ and also to determine the most effective manner for information presentation. The group studied consisted of 21 women who had attended in home health care instruction on the topics of arteriosclerosis and functional psychosis of the elderly and who are also currently serving as in home health care providers. The interview technique was used to obtain information regarding the provider's personal-social history, their opinions of the effectiveness of the information that had been presented in the instructional program, and their opinions of what subject matter and what site of presentation (in the home or in a class) should be used in teaching future groups of providers of in home health care. As a result of an ever increasing senior citizen population in this nation, a continual spiraling of the costs of professional health care services, and an increase of government financed programs for the low income geriatric ill persons, more in home health~ programs will no doubt be developed in the future as this nation moves toward National Health Insurance.