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Setting handicap goals with elderly people: a pilot study of the Life Strengths Interview

Salisbury Health Care NHS Trust, Salisbury

MC Conroy

Elderly Care Community Research Unit, Southampton Community Health Services NHS Trust, Southampton

PG Coleman

Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton

Objective: To assess whether the Life Strengths Interview (LSI) is a useful clinical framework to identify handicap goals.

Design: Clinical case studies.

Settings: Two elderly care rehabilitation hospitals.

Subjects: Five people, whose ages ranged from 73 to 90 years. All participants were aware of their likely resultant disability, scored 25+ out of a possible 30 with the Mini-Mental State Examination, were able to communicate effectively and were due to be discharged home in approximately one month.

Interventions: Each participant undertook the LSI process with the research occupational therapist.

Main outcome measures: Identified rehabilitation goals and their achievement.

Results: Goals were focused around families and other support networks. Six to eight weeks following discharge, achievement of goals varied.

Conclusions: This pilot study suggests that the LSI may be a useful clinical framework but further research needs to investigate whether a modified clinical version may be more suitable.

Clinical Rehabilitation, Vol. 11, No. 2, 156-161 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/026921559701100209


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