Reality of Elderly Care in the Public and Private Social Care Institutions in Amman: A Field Study

Abstract

This study sought to focus on the role of social care homes in the Amman

Governorate of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan by holding a comparative

study of the nature of the care for elders in the social care homes of the

government and private sectors.

The field study was held with the help of a questionnaire that was designed

and distributed to a random sample of 415 people in order to get the largest

possible number of answers in the government and private social care homes.

A total of 104 respondents sent their answers to the questions raised.

The results were analyzed by using the statistical analysis programe of

(SPSS) which included some descriptive tests, such as the measurements of the

centralized trend, the repetitious distribution, and the medium or averages to

describe the characteristics of the elderly people and the problems that they

are facing.

The Kay Square was used to reveal the changing relations between the

independent and non- independent variables.

The results of the study pointed out that there was a consensus of views

among the 104 respondents of the elderly people staying at government and

private social care homes that they were not receiving the proper social,

psychological, health, economic and recreational care by the management of

the government and private homes. The results have also shown the inability

of the government and private social care homes to resolve the problems of

the elderly people.