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Quality of life in nursing homes
— involving elders in policy making for their own care and life satisfaction | | Author(s) | Kathryn McKinley, Geri Adler |
| Journal title | IN: Cutting-edge social policy research; edited by Richard Hoefer, 2006 |
| Publisher | Haworth Press, Inc, Binghamton, NY, 2006 |
| Pages | pp 37-52 |
| Source | The Haworth Press, Inc. 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, New York 13904-1580 USA. http://www.HaworthPress.com |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Quality of life ; Well being ; Participation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The (US) Nursing Home Reform Act (NHRA) of 1987 established nursing home requirements and dually emphasized quality of care and quality of life outcomes. The authors used focus groups to research older people's perceptions of quality of life in nursing homes. Analysis revealed four major themes important to residents: generativity (showing concern for others), spiritual well-being, homelike environment, and privacy. Themes were used to analyse the disparity between NHRA's goal of dual emphasis and the dominance of quality of care in the treatment of frail older people living in nursing homes. Policies and procedures must be developed that promote decisional control in everyday matters of an older person's life. This paper is published simultaneously in the Social Policy Journal, vol 4, nos 3/4, 2005. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061031204 B |
| Classmark | KX: LHB: F:59: D:F:5HH: TMB: 7T |
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