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Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Home Visits on Elderly in Public Housing in Taipei - A Team Leader's Observation

Mei-Ju Chen1,2* and Chia-Hung Chen1

1Department of family medicine, Heping Fuyou Branch, Taipei City Hospital, Taiwan.

2Adjunct Associate Professor, College of healthcare administration and management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Science, Taiwan.

Corresponding Author:
Mei-Ju Chen
Department of family medicine in Heping Fuyou Branch
Taipei City Hospital; Adjunct Associate Professor
College of healthcare administration and management
National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Science
Add: 33, Section 2, Chunghua Road, Taipei, Taiwan
Tel: +886 2 2388 9595
E-mail: DXD41@tpech.gov.tw

Received date: April 17, 2016; Accepted date: April 28, 2016; Published date: April 30, 2016

Citation: Chen MJ, Chen CH (2016) Home Visits on Elderly in Public Housing in Taipei - A Team Leader's Observation. J Community Med Health 6:421. doi:10.4172/2161-0711.1000421

Copyright: © 2016 Chen MJ, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand the health stakeholders’ characteristics who join the home visits.
Method: In this qualitative research, the data was collected based on team's leader observations.
Result: The personality traits of the health stakeholders included warm-heartedness, being passionate and
calmness. The team was professionally competent, enthusiastic and empathetic. There was an effective division of labor. All the members strongly approved of the interdepartmental arrangement. In our study, the pharmacist and dietician did not have younger staff (<5 years) to join the home visit.
Conclusion: It is an important to know that the characteristics of the health stakeholders who are willing to join home visit. The empathy training, communication skill and policy regulations should be included in the education programs.

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