Abstract
The objective of this study is to examine how care management practices are affected by the building of relationships to support old public assistance recipients. For this purpose, we conducted in January and February 2021 a survey with self-administered questionnaires, that were mailed to 800 randomly selected care management centers and comprehensive community support centers in Osaka City, Japan. The response rate was 19.1% (N=153). Independent variables: Relationship-building with informal and formal care support personnel. Informal care referred to Supporters Rather than the client’s family (SR) and members of the Client’s Family (CF). Formal care referred to institutions that provided daily Monitoring and Money management (MM) and Legal and Financial support (LF). Dependent variables: Care planning and Implementation (CI), Assessment (A), Financial support and Evaluation (FE), Contract and Explanations in care management (CE), coordinating informal support and formal services in Care Planning (CP), and arrangements in Financial supports for Formal service costs (FF). We performed structural equation modeling to examine the relationships between the independent and dependent variables. The goodness of the fit indices was acceptable, and we retained the models. In correlational analyses, CI, A and CE significantly correlated with CF and MM. FE significantly correlated with MM. CP significantly correlated with SR, CF and MM. Finally, FF significantly correlated with SR and MM. These results suggest that the relationships to family members, daily surveillance and money management, and informal community support are important factors to improve the care management for older public assistance recipients.
Presenters
Takako AyabeAssistant Professor, Cultural and Expression Studies, BAIKA Women’s University, Osaka, Japan
Details
Presentation Type
Theme
Public Policy and Public Perspectives on Aging
KEYWORDS
Care Management, Old Public Assistance Recipients
