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高齡與非高齡家庭照顧者之照顧現況與需求比較
Comparison of Caring Status and Needs between Elderly and Non-elderly Family Caregivers
摘要
家庭照顧者是長期照顧體系中最主要的照顧提供者，隨著高齡社會來臨，照顧者高齡化的現象亦隨之而來；然而目前的長期照顧政策是依據失能狀況提供不同程度的服務方案，並未考量照顧者可能因為年齡差異性而有不同需求。因此本研究目的在比較高齡/非高齡家庭照顧者的照顧現況與需求，採用問卷調查法，收集76位高齡照顧 者與119位非高齡照顧者的資料，並檢定兩組的差異。研究結果顯示：雖然兩組家庭照顧者都感受到沉重的照顧壓力，他們之間的需求卻不盡相同。非高齡家庭照顧者中需兼顧工作與照顧家人的較多，建議規劃友善家庭照顧者的職場環境，例如：彈性上 班、有薪家庭照顧假等。高齡家庭照顧者則是教育程度較低、自覺健康狀況較差、罹患疾病數較多、有困難的照顧項目較多、對服務的滿意度較低，且高齡照顧者其被照顧者平均年齡較高，每日照顧時數較多、照顧年數較長；高齡者需要更多的關懷與協助，如：增加居家服務時數、到宅指導照顧技巧、照顧問題電話諮詢、志工關懷訪視等。
並列摘要
Family caregivers play the most important role as primary care providers in long-term care system. With the coming of aging society, the phenomenon of aged caregivers is prevailed nowadays. Although the current official policy of long-term care offers different levels of service options according to degree of disability of the disabled person, it lacks in considering the divergent needs of care-givers for their various age. Therefore, the objective of this study is to compare the needs and the current care-giving status between aged and non-aged family caregivers. Adopting a questionnaire survey, we collected data from 76 aged and 119 non-aged caregivers and then investigated the difference between the two groups of age. The results indicated that while both aged and non-aged family caregivers indeed received heavy pressures in care-giving, the needs for them were not the same. For most non-aged subjects, considering their simultaneous needs in coping with work and care-giving, it was advised to create friendly workplace environments such as flexible working hours and paid family care leaves. However, aged family care-givers were often poor educated, aware of their bad health condition, suffering from disease frequently, encountering large amount of difficulties in many care-giving items, and less satisfied with care service. Aged care-givers also took care of higher-aged care-receivers in average, spent more hours for family care each day, and took more years to look after their receivers. It is suggested that aged-caregivers need higher level of concern and assistance in many ways, such as increasing home service hours, directing care-giving skills at home, telephone consulting to care problems, and providing home visit service by volunteers.