A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs: Utilization, Satisfaction, and Development

by Montgomery; Rhonda J.V.

• ISBN13: 9780789017499
• ISBN10: 0789017490
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-03-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Explore new frontiers in Alzheimer's support systems! When Congress authorized the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States program in 1990, no one knew how effective the program would prove to be. A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs provides you with results of the first major evaluation of ADDGS programs. Across the country, groups were able to develop specialized programs that reached traditionally underserved clients. A byproduct of many of the ADDGS programs was that they helped strengthen ties between communities and agencies, improving social services for both caregivers and people with Alzheimer's. A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs examines: the profile of the average respite care user different challenges faced by urban and rural clientele how culture and ethnicity influence health care decisions ways to involve communities in respite care how understanding patterns of use makes for better program design and implementation

Table of Contents

A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs:
Utilization, Satisfaction, and Development
Foreword	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction: A New Look at Community-Based
Respite Programs: Utilization, Satisfaction, and Development	1	(4)
Rhonda J. V. Montgomery, PhD
Initial Findings from the Evaluation of the Alzheimer's Disease
Demonstration Grants to States Program	5	(28)
Rhonda J. V. Montgomery, PhD
Karl Kosloski, PhD
Tracy X. Karner, PhD
Jay P. Schaefer, MA
Profiles of Respite Use	33	(32)
Rhonda J. V. Montgomery, PhD
Janet Marquis, PhD
Jay P. Schaefer, MA
Karl Kosloski, PhD
The Role of Cultural Factors on Clients' Attitudes
Toward Caregiving, Perceptions of Service Delivery,
and Service Utilization	65	(24)
Karl Kosloski, PhD
Jay P. Schaefer, MA
Debra Allwardt, MA
Rhonda J. V. Montgomery, PhD
Tracy X. Karner, PhD
Factors Related to Client Satisfaction
with Community-Based Respite Services	89	(18)
Donald Townsend, PhD
Karl Kosloski, PhD
Successful Strategies for Serving Diverse Populations	107	(26)
Tracy X. Karner, PhD
Lisa Cox Hall, MA
Comment on the Utility of the ADDGS Evaluation
for Policy and Practice	133	(8)
Melanie K. Starns, MAG
Exemplars of Successful Alzheimer's Demonstration Projects	141	(36)
Melanie K. Starns, MAG
Tracy X. Karner, PhD
Rhonda J. V. Montgomery, PhD
Index	177