Preventive home visits implemented by healthcare professionals can improve biopsychosocial health and self-care in older adults. However, the results on the cost-effectiveness of these preventive home visits are inconsistent. Nursing student-led preventive home visiting programmes could be an alternative. Aim: To understand how community-dwelling older adults with chronic multimorbidity experience a home visiting programme led by nursing students. Methods: A qualitative study based on Gadamer’s hermeneutic phenomenology. Thirty-one community-dwelling older adults with chronic multimorbidity were interviewed in-depth. Fleming’s method for conducting phenomenological qualitative studies was followed and ATLAS.ti software was used for data analysis. Results: Two main themes were generated: (1) ‘the empowering experience of a personalised health-promoting intervention’, and (2) ‘the emancipatory effect of going beyond standardised self-care education’. Conclusions: The home visiting programme led by nursing students has enhanced knowledge, awareness, and motivation to implement self-care behaviours among community-dwelling older adults with chronic multimorbidity. Additionally, the home visiting programme led by nursing students improved perceived autonomy and self-care while reducing loneliness and addressing the shortcomings of the healthcare system. Implications for patient care: Older adults with chronic multimorbidity participating in a home visiting programme led by nursing students feel empowered to implement self-care behaviours and this positively impacts their perceived health. Nurse leaders and nursing regulatory bodies could collaborate with nursing faculties to integrate preventive home visiting programmes led by nursing students into the services offered to community-dwelling older adults with chronic multimorbidity.

Authors:
José Manuel Hernández-Padilla, University of Almería, Spain
Cayetano Fernández-Sola, University of Almería, Spain
Iria Dobarrio-Sanz, University of Almería, Spain
Anabel Chica-Pérez, Emera Nursing Home, Spain
Matías Correa-Casado, University of Almería, Spain
José Granero-Molina, University of Almería, Spain

About the Presenter(s)
Dr José Manuel Hernández-Padilla is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University of Almería in Spain

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