Excerpt from: Phi National (click for full article)
Home care consumers who experience a low level of care continuity with their home health aides are less likely to see improvements in their activities of daily living (ADLs) than those with moderate to high continuity, a report published in Home Health Management & Practice found.
The study, conducted by the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), analyzed the correlation between care continuity and ADLs for more than 16,000 VNSNY consumers.
According to the researchers, consumers with low care continuity were 14 to 15 percent less likely to improve their ADLs than consumers who have a high continuity of care.
"In cases where a patient sees a different aide from the one who normally visits, the new aide must acquaint themselves with the patient's routine, tastes, and preferences," the authors write.
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