Study title

Older People's Experiences of Home Care Services 1999

Dataset ID Number

FSD2379

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2379

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Tepponen, Pirkko (University of Helsinki. Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care)

Abstract

The survey charting the feedback from home care customers was conducted through both questionnaires and interviews. The aim of the survey was to explore the living environment and social relations of the respondents, as well as how they manage by themselves, their use of services, and assistance received. The interviews were conducted after collecting data through the questionnaire. The questions in the questionnaires and interviews were almost identical.

The respondents were asked to estimate their present life situation for instance in terms of health and functionality of services. Long-term illnesses and ability to move indoors and outdoors were also charted. They were asked to name the most important sources of assistance. The need of help and adequacy of help received with various everyday tasks were investigated, as well as the use and adequacy of help received from home help service, home nurse, volunteer, and family member. They were also asked to list the municipal support services they had used, and to give their opinions on which services they considered the most important, and whether they would like to increase some of the services. Some questions canvassed the use of non-municipal services, price level of municipal services, and information received on various services. The respondents were asked how well their own wishes had been taken into account when planning home care. Further questions covered the duration of potential changes in home care received during the past year, and support received from the home nurses. Experiences of loneliness, insecurity, uselessness, idleness, and helplessness were investigated, as well reasons for them. Finally, the respondents indicated whether they had been in ward treatment in the past 12 months, whether the help received during the treatment had been adequate, and how leaving to home had been organised.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, mother tongue, marital status, education, occupation before retirement, type of accommodation, hobbies, number of living relatives, whether R's apartment needed repairing, how far R's close relatives lived, and communication with friends and neighbours. In addition, the questionnaire included a question on who filled the questionnaire.

Keywords

care in the community; care of the elderly; elderly; home help; home visits; metropolitan areas; social services

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Medical and health sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Elderly (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Specific social services: use and availability (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Data Collector

• Tepponen, Pirkko (University of Helsinki. Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care)

Data Producers

• University of Helsinki. Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care

Time Period Covered

1999

Collection Dates

1999

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland, Espoo, Helsinki, Vantaa

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Home help service customers aged over 75 living in Helsinki area

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Probability: Simple random

Questionnaire respondents from Helsinki were selected by random sampling and in Espoo and Vantaa a total study was conducted. The samples consist of people in the research area who had been home care customers at least for three months. The total number of accepted responses was 452, the response rate thus being 66%.

Interviewees (N=30) were selected among the questionnaire respondents by systematic sampling (every 15th was selected). If the selected respondent could not be reached or he/she refused the interview, he/she was replaced by the respondent next in order.

Collection Mode

Face-to-face interview

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

66

Data File Language

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Data Version

2.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

Questions have been numbered and organised according to the questionnaire order so that 'A' refers to questionnaire data and 'B' to interview data.

The data do not contain responses to open-ended questions. In addition, the latter part of the responses to questions 21, 40 and 5 in the interview questionnaire are not included in the data. The response categories in the interview questionnaire do not fully correspond with the archived responses in most cases.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

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Bibliographical Citation

Tepponen, Pirkko (University of Helsinki): Older People's Experiences of Home Care Services 1999 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-18). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2379

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Disclaimer

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Related Materials

Tepponen, Pirkko (2003). Yli 75-vuotiaiden kotihoitoasiakkaiden palvelujen toteutuminen pääkaupunkiseudulla. Tutkimus Espoon, Helsingin ja Vantaan kaupungeissa. Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto. Yleislääketieteen ja perusterveydenhuollon osasto. Väitöskirja

Related Publications

Tepponen, Pirkko (2003). Yli 75-vuotiaiden kotihoitoasiakkaiden palvelujen toteutuminen pääkaupunkiseudulla. Tutkimus Espoon, Helsingin ja Vantaan kaupungeissa. Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto. Yleislääketieteen ja perusterveydenhuollon osasto. Väitöskirja.