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Chapter 5 Findings
Health and Children dependency classifications. Column 4 gives the overall
national statistics for dependency in residential care in Ireland on 31 st December
2010.
Table 5.2: Dependency of residents on the research unit
Barthel Category
The dependency figures for the research unit are largely comparable to national
statistics for resident dependency in long-stay care, whereby the majority of older
people in residential care are highly dependent on care staff.
This section has described the case study site based on an analysis of its staff and
resident profiles. The next section reports the findings from the documentary
analysis.
National
Dependency
Classification
5.5 Findings from Documentary Analysis
This section will describe the findings from the documentary analysis. The
documents analysed were the staff rosters, the research unit’s philosophy of care,
and the residents’ sets of documentation.
5.5.1 Analysis of Staff Rosters
Number
of
Residents
(n=38)
Percentage
of Unit
Population
Percentage
in National
Population
0-4: Very Severely
Dependent
Maximum 19 50% 34.5%
5-9: Severely High 9 23.5% 29.6%
Dependent
+
10-14
Moderately
Dependent
+
3
+
8%
= 31.5%
15-19: Mildly
Dependent
Medium 6 16% 22.9%
20: Independent Low 1 2.5% 13%
One hundred and twenty-three daily rosters with daily allocation sheets were
analysed (Appendix 19). Content analysis was performed. The daily allocation
sheets displayed how many staff were on duty, whether or not anyone was on sick
leave, and whether or not relief staff were supplied. These were analysed for the