Aged Care Facilities: Literature Review and Research Gaps

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Aged care facilities
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Literature review
Introduction
Global ageing population has led to increase in demand for aged care facilities globally. Aged
facilities are the long-term care services provided for older individuals who may not be taken
care well at home because of the health and social aspects (Bauer et al 2015). With an aim to
satisfy the diverse care and various social welfare policies, there have been different kinds of
aged care facilities. For instance, in Australia, aged care facilities are offered for the older
people who are physically frail so they are dependent whilst assisted living facilities are offered
to those older people that have greater level of physical dependence along with the self care
capabilities (Villarosa, Wang and George, 2018). Aged care facilities are the generic terms
accustomed to explain these numerous forms of the residential provision (Blumenthal and Hsiao,
2015). The quality of life continues to be found to be an important predictor of the mortality,
physical dependence together with service usage amongst the older people (Villarosa, Wang and
George, 2018). Aged care facilities acquainted with home the elders probably will come across
reduced quality of life because of the deteriorated health issue, changes in the living
environment, inflexibility of daily routine along with altering of the social interactional design
(Villarosa, Wang and George, 2018). Thus, promoting aged care facilities remains to be known
as the optimal goal to the residential care in the well being and sociable perspective (Blumenthal
and Hsiao, 2015). There are many studies that have highlighted the quality of life problems of
the aged care facilities for the elders which have been published particular in the last decade. In
this literature review it would research, analyse and describe the aged care facilities subject
evaluating on various resources and identify the resources of the previous research within this

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topic. Moreover, it would define on the gaps in this subject on what has been missing from the
review to ensure future research study could be undertaken.
An aged care capability is a home that provides accommodation along with types of support ,
which included assistance with daily living, extensive form of care, along with assistance when it
comes to impartial living, to frail and aged residents (Gordon , Harrison and Miller, 2015). These
types of features happen to be accredited by the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency
Ltd in order to get funding from Australian Government by the residential aged care subsidies
(Gordon, Harrison and Miller, 2015). There has been numerous definitions which have been
utilized in the health and community services firms in relation to the residential aged care, and
residential aged care facilities. Many of these definitions revolve around the services given in the
residential aged care features.
As Australian population continues to age rapidly, the provision to the long term aged care
facilities for the older Australians become increasingly urgent issue (Villarosa, Wang and
George, 2018). The current system for the aged care facilities relies majorly on the informal
which is unpaid caregivers. These are middle aged females (Villarosa, Wang and George, 2018).
Majority of who are employed. The typical care recipient, most often a parent, is also a female.
This is because women tend to live longer and often outlive their spouses. Based on Masso,
McCarthy and Kitson (2014), family caregivers they devote some amount of time to help their
relative, about one third of the caregivers report provides more than 21 hours of help per week.
Additionally, many caregivers offer assistance for long periods of time, with 40% having offered
assistance for the last 5 years. There are numerous studies which have examined adverse
impacts of care giving on physical as well as psychological health of the informal caregivers. For
example, Pinquart (2003) had conducted Meta analysis of 228 studies and concluded that the