How are Health Reforms Affecting Seniors?
A Participatory Evaluation Guide
Participatory evaluation can provide project managers, policy-makers,
administrators, boards and front line service providers with valuable
information on the programs and projects they administer. Because it relies
on the whole spectrum of people involved in the programs, including the
users, it can be an extremely effective tool in measuring successes or
shortcomings, in understanding the underlying causes, and in eliciting
data to support recommendations and improvements.
How Are Health Reforms Affecting Seniors? A Participatory Evaluation
Guide is the end product of three years of research and analysis undertaken
by the National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) to develop a tool to
assist in evaluating the impact of health reforms on the availability,
the accessibility and the quality of health care for seniors and their
families.
To accomplish this goal, NACA members first interviewed seniors receiving
health services and their caregivers to discover what they expected of
the services they received. The values expressed by seniors and their
caregivers lie at the heart of this evaluation tool. NACA also reviewed
the health reforms undertaken in all provinces and territories and reflected
on the potential impact of these reforms on the care of seniors. An evaluation
framework was developed, which provided the basis for a series of evaluation
questions, success indicators and information sources. The final step
was the production of a practical evaluation guide, to which have been
incorporated key elements of NACA's research on seniors' values, health
reforms and the evaluation framework.
To obtain your free copy of "How are Health Reforms Affecting
Seniors, A Participatory Evaluation Guide", it is now available
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For more information, call or write to:
National Advisory Council on Aging
Adress locator: 1908A1
Ottawa, ON
K1A 1B4
Tel.: 613-952-7606
Fax : 613-957-7627
E-mail: info@naca-ccnta.ca
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