title: Self-activeness and the need for help in domiciliary care.
abstract: The data in this paper are based on interviews of domiciliary care patients in Helsinki, Finland. The aim of the study was to compare self-active patients' (65) and non-self-active patients' (61) need for help and the help they received. The findings demonstrated that patients who had, to some extent, a 'better' background, received support from their relatives, assessed themselves as physically and especially mentally healthier and were socially stronger, were also more often self-active than patients, who had a 'poorer' background, received little support and felt more ill. The non-self-active patients received help with some physical activities more often but not with mental and social problems. The self-active patients co-operated better with the care providers and considered the quality of care to be higher than did the non-self-active patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Raatikainen
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006304:Health Status; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires