Determining life standards of families with disable individual who gets home care services: Sample of amasya

This research aimed to determine the life standards of families who benefit from home care services in Amasya. Scale of life standards is used in the study along with a questionnaire including socio-demographic information. According to January 2015 data, Questionnaires are completed with 163 families getting home care services. Analyses of the data obtained in the SPSS 21 program were made. Considering ages of caregiver individuals, it is observed that 44.2% of caregivers are between 41 and 50 and 30.1% of them are over 56 years old. It is detected that 61.3% of the disabled individuals are female, 38.7% are male and 84% of caregivers are female and 16% are male. While 28.8% of the disabled people in the survey are married, the 29.4% never married. When the marital status of caregivers is examined, information that 90.2% of the caregivers are married is received. 68.7% of disabled people who get care services are not literate. It is seen that 81, 6% majority of the caregivers who provide care services are housewives. As a result of the research, arithmetic average of the life standards of the families providing care services scored high with 91.