Elderly participants of social and rehabilitative day centres

Abstract

As it develops, an ageing society has increased need of services that can promote the health and well-being of the elderly. Community-based day programmes are one kind of service intended to support elderly people with restricted function in their daily lives. There are several different forms of day programmes for the elderly in Sweden, but guidelines are vague about their aim and implementation and little is known about the persons using them. The aim of this study was to identify characteristics of the elderly people living in their own home who participated in social day centres in comparison with participants who attended a rehabilitative day centre. The focus was on perceived functioning and competence in daily life. Twelve social day centre participants and 12 rehabilitative day centre participants answered two questionnaires, the sickness impact profile (SIP) and occupational self-assessment (OSA). The results show that the majority of participants from both centres were elderly persons living alone who experienced severely restricted physical function. This demonstrates that the day centres serve the needs of a specific group of elderly people, namely, those with highly restricted functioning living on their own. A significant difference between the groups was that those who attended the social day centre perceived better psychosocial function than the group attending the rehabilitative centre. The fact that the social centre group had better psychosocial function than the other group, but yet had severely restricted physical function indicates that it is preferably the psychosocial well-being of elderly persons with restricted functioning that is possible to influence. This result implies that these centres serve as an important meeting place for elderly persons who would otherwise be isolated in their homes because of their physical restrictions. To fulfil this challenge, the day centres might need to accommodate a wider range of persons with restricted functioning.

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