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Home from home? the views of residents on social gain and quality of life
— a study in three care centres for older people | | Corporate Author | Age & Opportunity, Marino Institute of Education |
| Publisher | Age & Opportunity, Dublin, 2003 |
| Pages | 52 pp |
| Source | Age & Opportunity, Marino Institute of Education, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9. www.olderinireland.ie |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Attitude ; Quality of life ; Qualitative Studies ; Ireland. |
| Annotation | 'Social gain' has no clear definition, but it can be defined as relating to broader aspects of quality of life. In this report, the researchers focus on social gain and quality of life to include healthcare issues. The report has a short profile of the three participating long-term residential care settings, and some description of the residents' life before and after entering long-term residential care: a total of 31 residents were interviewed. Key findings on the constituent elements of social gain concern positive and negative quality of life aspects and negative domains of quality of life. In determining whether older people experience social gain in long-term care, the report makes recommendations on eight domains with potentially positive and negative impacts: companionship; personal identity and privacy; group identity and being part of a community; being involved in meaningful activity; contact with family and friends; being care for; safety and security; and religion. Two further domains with negative impacts should also be included: functional competence; and control and autonomy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031023202 B |
| Classmark | KX: KW: DP: F:59: 3DP: 763 |
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