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| Social support measurement in group residences for older adults | | Author(s) | Jason T Newsom, Jamila Bookwala, Richard Schulz |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 3, no 1, Spring 1997 |
| Pages | pp 47-66 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Sheltered housing ; Grouped housing ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This review considers a variety of issues related to measuring social support among people living in nursing homes, residential homes, and congregate apartments. Self-report, proxy, and observational measures assessing social networks, perceived support, and negative interactions are described. Particular attention is given to problems and approaches relevant to assessing social support with cognitively impaired individuals and those living in congregate environments. Although social network and observational measures have been more commonly used with institutionalised elders, several support-related constructs (e.g. perceived support) that have been demonstrated to be important predictors of mental and physical health, are less commonly measured. More research is recommended, focusing on reliability and validity of measures, sources and functions of perceived support, negative interactions and conflict, measurement approaches with cognitively impaired respondents, and the importance of social support for mental and physical health outcomes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981020249 A |
| Classmark | P6: LHB: KW: KLA: KLH: 4C: 7T |
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