Quality attributes of Swedish home-help services--from a consumer perspective.

From existing Swedish literature, we examined different possible quality aspects of home-help services. We ordered the quality attributes of home help services under six headings: consumer adjustment of the services, competence of the staff and their attitudes, continuity, staff hours per services input, accessibility and information and communication. Concerning the relative importance of different quality aspects, our study indicates that the competence/attitudes of staff were clearly the most important quality factor. Within this category, individual qualities and attitudes were regarded as having greater importance than trained professional competence.