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KMID : 0856920150180010042
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Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
2015 Volume.18 No. 1 p.42 ~ p.50
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A Study of Social Workers’ Understanding of Elderly Patients’ and Family Caregivers’ Rights to End-of-Life Care Decisions and of Their Own Roles in the Process
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Han Soo-Youn
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was aimed to analyze how social workers understand the rights for elderly patient and familycaregiver to make end-of-life (EOL) care decisions and their roles the decision making process.
Methods: Thestudy employed a quantitative research method of collecting data from a structured questionnaire that was filledout by 334 social workers at long-term care facilities. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, mean differences,correlation between variables, using SPSS 20.0 program.
Results: The mean score for the understanding the rightsto an EOL care decision was 3.46±0.69 and of their own roles 3.48±0.84. The level of understanding significantlydiffered by social workers’ experience of assisting a process to make an EOL care decision such as advance directivesand life sustaining treatment, work experience, and the number of beds. Positive correlation was observed betweenthe level of understanding of the rights for EOL care decisions and of social workers’ roles (Pearson r=0.329,P＜0.001).
Conclusion: This study proposes development of an education program for social workers and devisingstandards for the EOL care decision making process to protect elderly patients, family caregivers as well as socialworkers in a long term care facility.
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KEYWORD
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Hospice care, Aged, Social work, Long-term care
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