Perception on service quality in old age homes: a qualitative study in Karachi, Pakistan
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The growing number of older people due to demographic transition is paving the way for nongovernmental organizations and the private sector for mushrooming of old age homes (OAHs). These homes function either free or fee for services and the services provided at these OAHs determines the quality of life of older people. The aim of the study was to explore the stakeholders' perception on the quality of services offered to people living in OAHs. METHODS: A descriptive qualitative study design was used to explore stakeholders' perception of elderly living experiences in old age homes. Three OAH were selected through purposive sampling for the study. Data collected from February-March 2015 through the structured interview guide. Participants' for FGDs were recruited through universal sampling, while purposive sampling was used for KIIs selection. Researcher ensured all ethical considerations for the entire study period. RESULTS: Two major themes were drawn including the reasons and experiences of older people living in OAH, secondly the need for caregivers' academic competencies. Majority of KIIs and FGDs reported common responses under the two themes. Also the elderly experiences varied from living comfortably to being depressed. KIIs and caregivers' FGD participants' strongly urged the need for caregivers' training and institutional accreditation. CONCLUSIONS: The results of the study on the older people's experiences and challenges of living in OAHs, strongly propose community support system and credentialing of the caregivers for age appropriate care. Moreover the capacity building of academia for offering specialized training in gerontology and geriatrics is also highlighted.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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