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Nursing home entry
— meaning making by relatives | | Author(s) | R Nay |
| Journal title | Australian Journal on Ageing, vol 15, no 3, 1996 |
| Pages | pp 123-126 |
| Keywords | Admission [nursing homes] ; Residents [care homes] ; The Family ; Emotions ; Interviewing ; Australia. |
| Annotation | In this Australian study, in-depth interviews have been conducted with relatives of nursing home residents regarding their experience of nursing home entry. This paper reports on preliminary analysis of the texts generated by interviews with 19 relatives. Grounded in hermeneutic phenomenology, the study explores and describes these experiences. Seven items are described which assist in understanding of the experience from the decision making through to nursing home entry: inability to cope; the hardest thing being emotional trauma; unexpectedness of the event; some homes not wanting to know; feeling of acceptance of the place; a homely environment; and feelings of guilt. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971014206 A |
| Classmark | LHB:QKH: KX: SJ: DL: 3DL: 7YA |
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