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Self-reported happiness of older adults in an assisted living facility
— effects of being in activities | | Author(s) | Erin E Watkins, Christopher Walmsley, Alan Poling |
| Journal title | Activities, Adaptation and Aging, vol 41, no 1, 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 87-97 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Well being ; Emotions ; Quality of life ; Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Recreation ; Participant observation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Happiness is an important component of older people's quality of life. However, happiness is a construct, not a thing, and s difficult to quantify. This American study examined the feasibility of having participants and observers quantify participants' level of happiness, by pointing to line drawings of faces depicting different emotions, like those commonly used to index pain. Participants in this observational study lived in the dementia special care unit of an assisted living facility located in a small mid-Western city. Complete data were analysed for six of ten original participants (four men, two women; age range 86 to 106). As hypothesised, results indicated that both participants and observers reported that participants were significantly happier when they were exposed to activities than when they were not. Scores recorded by participants showed a wider range of happiness and generally greater happiness than did scores recorded by observers. These results suggest that further research using this technique to measure happiness is warranted. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180126215 A |
| Classmark | D:F:5HH: DL: F:59: EA: LHB: H: 3DB: 7T |
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