Assessing Patients' Disaster Preparedness in Home-Based Primary Care

Gerontology
Tamar Wyte-LakeAram Dobalian

Abstract

Chronic conditions paired with normal aging put home-bound individuals at risk of harm during a disaster. Because of their high rate of comorbidities, veterans receiving care from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)'s home-based primary care (HBPC) program are especially vulnerable, which may prevent them from being prepared for disaster. With intimate knowledge of their patients' home environments, medical needs, resources, and limitations, HBPC practitioners are uniquely positioned to assess and improve disaster preparedness of patients. This study explored issues regarding disaster preparedness for HBPC patients, including ways in which policy and procedures support routine assessment of disaster preparedness for patients as well as patient education activities. This project involved 32 semi-structured interviews with practitioners and leadership at 5 VHA HBPC programs - 3 urban and 2 rural. Transcripts of the interviews were analyzed using content analysis techniques. Three themes emerged regarding the assessment of a patient's disaster preparedness: (1) assessment tools are rudimentary and, in some cases, individually developed by practitioners; (2) comprehension of criteria for assigning risk categories varies among ...Continue Reading

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Nov 15, 2016·Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness·Tamar Wyte-LakeAram Dobalian
Sep 8, 2018·American Journal of Public Health·Tamar Wyte-LakeAram Dobalian
Nov 1, 2018·Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness·Tamar Wyte-LakeAram Dobalian
Jan 15, 2019·Nurse Educator·Crystal Shannon
May 16, 2019·Journal of Primary Care & Community Health·Tamar Wyte-LakeAram Dobalian
Mar 26, 2019·Disability and Rehabilitation·Parvathi Subramaniam, Michelle Villeneuve
Nov 21, 2020·Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness·Tara N HeageleDanita M Alfred
Feb 2, 2020·The Nursing Clinics of North America·Judith R KatzburgSarah A Tubbesing
Mar 9, 2021·Prehospital and Disaster Medicine·Katie A WillsonDavid Lim
Jul 12, 2021·Journal of the American Geriatrics Society·Robert M ZimbroffOrla C Sheehan
Aug 20, 2021·Journal of Palliative Care·Janna E Baker RogersR Osvaldo Navia
Feb 8, 2019·Gerontology·Tamar Wyte-LakeAram Dobalian

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