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| College students' attitudes toward residential care facilities | | Author(s) | Erin M French, Pearl M Mosher-Ashley |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 26, no 6, September 2000 |
| Pages | pp 583-604 |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Students ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 109 female students aged 18 to 71 (mean, 24.8) and 22 male students aged 19 to 43 (mean 23.3) enrolled in a psychology of ageing course at a local US state college. Students interviewed older residents of 96 different long-term care homes, and compared a questionnaire assessing their impressions of the home and its residents. Students' openness to living in long-term care settings and positive and negative statements about the home visited were the main measures of student attitudes towards such settings. Nursing homes were perceived more negatively that any other long-term care setting. Students who had been affected by meeting the needs of an older relative were more open to living in residential care settings, as were students who interviewed residents who were satisfied with their lives. Nursing homes elicited the least openness to living in residential care, whereas assisted care and continuing care elicited the most openness. Students who perceived residents as mentally alert made fewer negative statements about homes visited. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001017220 A |
| Classmark | KW: LHB: TOB: XN: 7T |
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