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Elders' decisions to enter assisted living facilities
— a grounded theory study | | Author(s) | Shu-li Chen, Janet W Brown, Linda C Melford |
| Journal title | Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 22, nos 1/2, 2008 |
| Publisher | The Haworth Press, Inc., 2008 |
| Pages | pp 86-103 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Sheltered housing ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Attitude ; Admission ; Theory ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Assisted living for older people has acquired increased importance in American society. This qualitative study aimed to develop a substantive theory of older people's decision-making process to relocate to an assisted living facility. The researchers interviewed a purposive sample of 28 older people who resided in assisted living facilities. The theory of their decisions to relocate is a story about older people weighing and balancing gains and losses to go where the help is. Decision makers weigh and balance gains and losses before, during and after relocating to the assisted living facility. Older people stay at their current residence if gains outweigh looses, and they relocate if losses outweigh gains. Understanding the decision-making process in this segment of the population may lead to the development of interventions that can promote positive relocation experiences among older people and increase the effectiveness of their decision-making behaviours. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080808034 A |
| Classmark | KLA: KW: LHB: DP: QKH: 4D: 3DP: 7T |
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