Methodology For describing the research design of the thesis, this chapter aims to explain the methodology and epistemological approach of my research, to provide the detailed outline of research design and research process, to address the ethical issues involved in the fieldwork, and to reflect the limitations. 1. Methodological approach The methodological approach of this study is guided by its aims and research questions. This section starts from the clarification of research questions to explain why the qualitative methods are employed. This study aims to examine how the marketisation process is shaping the development of home care policy and practice for older people in urban China. The focus of this thesis is how the role of the market is developing; how the other sectors respond to these changes; and how the care regime is shaped and, in turn, shaping the practice in urban China. This leads to the research objectives: to examine the rationale behind the marketisation of care, to understand how home care has been marketised in urban China since the 1990s, to investigate processes of marketisation of home care, and to explore existing and potential impacts of marketisation of home care on the care system and participants in the care market in urban China. Among key stakeholders in the care market, namely service users, providers, purchasers, care workers, and regulators, central to my study is experiences and viewpoints of service providers and local regulators. The
There are both strengths and weaknesses to the design and methods section. The use of the qualitative paradigm and the methodology was appropriate for the research purpose. The audio recording and transcription, coupled with dedication to ethics created further validity for this study. This article could have been enriched by providing information about the sources of funding or grants that the researchers received.
In this paper I will analyze two articles, one is quantitative and the other is qualitative. I will describe the quantitative methods used including the research question addressed, the hypothesis, and variables. I will identify the population and sample. I will discuss the reliability and validity of the instruments used. I will then discuss the design of the article and how the findings were analyzed. For the qualitative article, I will identify the design of the article, the methods used and the strategies used for analyzing the data. Lastly, I will look at the implications for practice in the qualitative article, discuss other journals that might be interested in publishing the article and discuss how this article might
Qualitative research reflects different ways that researcher’s collect data and explore all of the information through literature review. Participant’s that are reviewing is often observed for analysis while “the role of the researcher focuses as the primary data collection instrument necessitates the identification of personal values, assumptions and biases at the outset of the study; Qualitative researchers ask at least one central question” (Creswell, 2014, which can be explored in several contexts with further questions. According to the text Research Design (2014) “the researcher’s role is typically involved in a
Qualitative method is using open-ended questioning, non-statistical research techniques, or value-based observations. In this research, three main methodologies are adopted as focus group, distributing questionnaires and conducting personal interviews simultaneously. Methods are all appropriate and contributed to a comprehensive research. The reason is that aim of this research is to acquire an in-depth understanding of
This proposed study utilize a qualitative approach. A qualitative approach is “research studies that aid us in understanding human systems, whether large-scale, as in cultural systems, or smaller-scale” (Savenye & Robinson, 2005).
Seniors face many challenges in their day to day life and often need assistance with daily activities. Home Care is a service, which may be covered under Medicare and Medicaid, that provides seniors assistance in meal preparation, transportation, medication reminders, and other daily tasks. A skilled caregiver will come to your home and provide daily assistance to ensure the activities of daily living are met. In 2000, 7.6 million people received some degree of in-home care services (Tender Hearts, 2017). With Home Care being a lower cost solution to facility care, many seniors are choosing to maintain their lifestyle and keep their independence by using in-home care services
In this case, Trident Home Care Organization anticipates providing individual non-medical Home Aide Care that is directed towards assisting people with aging ailment at the comfort of their homes. Trident Home Care Organization will additionally ensure that individuals Home Aide Carers are equipped in caring for people with special needs within their comfort zones. This type of care may be developed for care providers who help people who are catching up with age, those recovering from surgeries, the disabled and chronically ill patients. Trident Home Care Organization will render typical services such as the provision of personal care that include assistance with bathing, dressing, and the
A qualitative methodological approach was the obvious choice in that it allows for the collection and interpretation of stories, narratives, interviews and other forms of non-quantifiable data. A qualitative approach also does not demand or strive for detached objectivity of the researcher but instead encourages the disclosure of researcher bias and the engagement of the researcher with the research and subjects, often in the role of participant-observer (Dade, Tartakov, Hargrave, & Leigh,
Following a critical overview of the literature, this chapter outlines the research methodology. It will provide a justification for a qualitative methodological approach and specification of methods employed. Highlighting the appropriateness of interviews and focus groups in relation to the methodology and overall research. It will also provide recognition of their relative strengths and limitations.
Within this assignment we are asked to identify if the research article that we choose for this unit is either a phenomenological approach or a generic qualitative approach was used, and then describe the physiognomies the evidence to support the identification. We then must explain and identify the main phenomenon that was under investigation in the research; describe the qualitative approach to analyzing the data in this study; describe what the data collection process as well as the role of the researcher; and evaluate the scientific merit of the selected approach. Next we will discuss how did the approach we used (either phenomenology or generic qualitative) help the researcher to answer the research question, and how differently might we have designed the research study differently?
In addition, the health of the country is the responsibility of the government. However what happens when responsibility is shifted away from the Ministry of Community and Social Services and consolidated it within the medical range of care. In the article, Privatizing Public Nursing Homes: Examining the Effects on Quality and Access by Anna Amirkhanyan it examines the effects municipal government withdraw from the Medicaid recipients in privatized nursing homes and how their quality and access to care to effected. The impact of privatized nursing homes involves complex organizational performance and set of ‘trade-offs’. This is the changing of ownership management to for profit management, which increases the number of the violation that occur. To ensure cost saving methods and efficiency in LTC, it is often done at the expense of quality. Amirkhanyan study illustrated that the total number of violations, as well as violations per training to quality of life, indeed increase when facilities change their status from public-owned to for-profit. Therefore the data on the quality in for-profit facilities is generally lower to public homes are consistent (ibid. 2008). This is a troubling fact is that a vast majority of LTC and nursing homes in Canada, especially in Ontario are for profit. Likely to undergo adjustment in facilities that may reduce staff or cut other resources,
Marketisation is a worldwide trend across the field of social welfare, such as education (Ntshoe, 2004; Lowrie and Hemsley-Brown, 2011), health care (Collyer and White, 2011), voluntary/charity organisations (Cunningham, et al., 2013; Mckay, et al., 2015), and elder care and childcare (Brennan, et al., 2012). As Drakeford (2007) proposed, the marketisation of welfare has various forms, including ownership transforming from the state to market agencies or individuals, purchasing services from private/independent providers instead of being directly provided by the state, and relocating responsibilities from the state to individuals. Under the trend of global marketisation, elder care is increasingly shaped by the market. This study defines the term of ‘marketisation of care for older people’ as applying ‘markets’, ‘market principles’ (Daly and Lewis, 2000) and ‘market mechanism’ (Brennan et al., 2012; Williams and Brennan, 2012) in the field of care for older people. The ‘marketisation of care’ is a considerably complicated and multi-faceted trend, which involves shifts of the balance of mixed economy of care and increasing faith for applying market principles in the public sector (Daly and Lewis, 2000).
This report identifies a problem with an In-Home Care Company in the Mid- West region of the country. In- Home Care agencies are designed
When utilizing a qualitative approach, the task becomes one of determining the qualitative method to be used. Additionally, Stake (2010) used purpose, research design, and methodical data techniques as a way of classifying types of qualitative research. Similarly, Cresswell & Cresswell (2007) spoke of five practices of qualitative research. These five practices consist of biography, phenomenological study, grounded theory study, ethnography, and case study. This researcher chose a phenomenological study for this research project.
Qualitative research is the technique that is used as a part of exploratory research and to derive the independent variables. There are different methods through which we can conduct the qualitative research. As a part of this study we have adopted the following methods: