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| The salience of social relationships for resident well-being in assisted living | | Author(s) | Debra Street, Stephanie Burge, Jill Quadagno |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 2, March 2007 |
| Pages | pp S129-S134 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Personal relationships ; Well being ; Sheltered housing ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from 384 assisted living residents interviewed for the Florida Study of Assisted Living conducted in 2004-05 were used to estimate associations between resident well-being and organisational characteristics, transition experiences, and social relationships, controlling for gender, age, education and physical functioning. To varying degrees, depending on the measures used, higher resident well-being was associated with facility size, facility acceptance of payment from Florida's low income programme, and resident perceptions of adequate privacy. Non-kin room sharing reduced life satisfaction, whereas food quality positively affected all measures of well-being. The most consistent findings concerned internal social relationships, for which residents with high scores reported more positive well-being across all measures than those with low scores on the same measures. Individuals have the capacity to form new support networks following a move to assisted living, and relationships formed become more salient to their well-being than the continuation of past relationships or the physical characteristics of the immediate surroundings. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504253 A |
| Classmark | DS: D:F:5HH: KLA: 7T |
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