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| A profile of aging veterans: inpatients versus outpatients | | Author(s) | Husam F Ghusn, Ellen S Stevens, Farah Attasi |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 19, no 4, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 51-62 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Life satisfaction ; Personal relationships ; Health [elderly] ; Attitude ; Patients [nursing homes] ; Out-patients ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A study of 244 veterans was conducted to further inform comprehensive care planning through Veteran Affairs (VA) medical centres. This article focuses on the older veterans of the study, aged 65 to 97 years, who were inpatients in VA nursing home units or outpatients in VA clinics. A 60-item research instrument was personally administered to gather information about personal and role characteristics, including self-perceptions, interpersonal relationships, and levels of later life satisfaction. Findings indicate that, for both inpatient and outpatient veterans, "self-perceived health" and the ability to "meet expectations for later life" were salient. For the inpatient veterans, "sense of usefulness" and "ongoing respect" were also significant. For the outpatient veterans, "the frequency and nature of contact with family and friends" were significant. Psychosocial services which complement biomedical services can address these empirically documented mental health needs in the planning of psychogeriatric programmes for incoming cohorts of ageing veterans. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990211206 A |
| Classmark | F:5HH: DS: CC: DP: LHB:LF: LFB: 7T |
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