Life Satisfaction of Elderly Individuals in Regular Community Housing, in Low-Cost Community Housing, and High and Low Self-Determination Nursing Homes

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Vallerand ◽  
Brian P. O'Connor ◽  
Marc R. Blais
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
The Common

Numerous studies have found that giving nursing home residents more control or self-determination in their daily lives increases their life satisfaction. However, it is not known if elderly people living in high self-determination nursing homes are as satisfied with life as elderly people living in the community. In this study, it was found that elderly persons living in regular community housing, in low-cost community housing, and in high self-determination nursing homes reported similar levels of life satisfaction, and more life satisfaction than elderly people living in low self-determination nursing homes. Health and sociodemographic variables could not account for these findings. The common assumption that nursing homes have detrimental effects on life satisfaction appears unwarranted in the case of those that provide opportunities for self-determination.

scholarly journals Beliefs and Consumer Search in a Vertical Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2359-2393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten Janssen ◽  
Sandro Shelegia
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Search Costs ◽  
Retail Price ◽  
Consumer Search ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Vertical Relations ◽  
Retail Prices ◽  
The Common ◽  
Search Market ◽  
Pass Through

Abstract This paper studies vertical relations in a search market. As the wholesale arrangement between a manufacturer and its retailers is typically unobserved by consumers, their beliefs about who is to be blamed for a price deviation play a crucial role in determining wholesale and retail prices. The common assumption in the consumer search literature is that consumers exclusively blame an individual retailer for a price deviation. We show that in the vertical relations context, predictions based on this assumption are not robust in the sense that if consumers hold the upstream manufacturer at least partially responsible for the deviation, equilibrium predictions are qualitatively different. For robust beliefs, the vertical model can explain a variety of observations, such as retail price rigidity (or, alternatively, low cost pass-through), nonmonotonicity of retail prices in search costs, and (seemingly) collusive retail behavior. The model can be used to study a monopoly online platform that sells access to final consumers.

Control Beliefs of the Frail Elderly: Assessing Differences Between Homebound and Nursing Home Residents

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Grain
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Sense Of Control ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Dependent Samples

Previous age-related sense of control studies have largely focused on active, community-dwelling aged individuals and have excluded elderly persons who are frail. This study compares sense of control and life satisfaction as determined through rating scale administration between two frail, dependent samples: nursing home residents and homebound elderly. Differences in control scores were statistically significant for those who were homebound expressing higher perceived personal control than nursing home residents (p < .001). Sense of control has no correlation with either life satisfaction or length of stay in the nursing home cohort.

Monitoring System for Elderly People Using Passive RFID Tags

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 649-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshikazu Mori ◽  
◽  
Shinichiro Kido ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Rfid Tags ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Passive Rfid ◽  
Electric Waves

<div class=""abs_img""><img src=""[disp_template_path]/JRM/abst-image/00260005/14.jpg"" width=""200"" />Monitoring system using RFID tags</div> This paper presents amonitoring systemthat uses passive RFID tags for detection of unexpected loitering and falling of elderly people in nursing homes. This system, which is superior to a video camera in terms of privacy, incorporates tag readers set on ceilings beside a bed and under doors. The system combines the following two methods. The first method targets caregivers and non-senile elderly persons. Each wears an RFID shoulder tag. However, some senile elderly people who are not wearing RFID tags might wander. Therefore, the second method described for this system is based on a phenomenon by which electric waves are attenuated by water. Several RFID tags are put on the floor. Then the presence of a person at that spot is inferred from the number of RFID tags that are responding. Experimental results obtained for a person beside a bed and passing through a door confirm the effectiveness of this system. </span>

Tuberculosis in Long-Term Care Facilities

1990 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Bentley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Risk Group ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Tuberculosis Case ◽  
Term Care

Persons age 65 and over constitute the largest reservoir of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in the United States today. During 1987, 6,150 tuberculosis cases were reported among this high-risk group. These cases represent 27% of the total US tuberculosis morbidity, although this age group constitutes only 12% of the US population. Tuberculosis case rates in the United States are higher among the elderly (20.6 per 100,000) than among all other age groups (average 9.3 per 100,000).More Americans live in nursing homes than in any other type of residential institution; on any given day approximately 5% of all elderly persons are living in a nursing home. Elderly nursing home residents are at greater risk for tuberculosis than elderly persons living in the community. In a Centers for Disease Control (CDC)-sponsored survey of 15,379 routinely-reported tuberculosis cases from 29 states, 8% of the 4,919 cases that occurred among elderly persons occurred among residents of nursing homes. The incidence of tuberculosis among nursing home residents was 39.2 per 100,000 person years, whereas the incidence of tuberculosis among elderly persons living in the community was 21.5 per 100,000. The observed rate of tuberculosis among nursing home employees was three times the rate expected in employed adults of similar age, race and sex (CDC, unpublished data).

scholarly journals “To go crazy, to snap and that's it…” coronavirus pandemic and nursing homes in Croatia

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 657-673
Author(s):  
Ana-Marija Vukusic
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
World Health ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The People ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Starting from the assumption that the COVID-19 pandemic has had the strongest impact on social groups that were already vulnerable and marginalized, and underlined existing social inequalities, I focus on some of the consequences of pandemic control measures on the daily lives of elderly people. In the first part of the paper, I deal with the ?positioning? of elderly people in the context of COVID-19 protection measures - which, following the recommendations of the World Health Organization, were adopted by individual countries - discussing the features of ageism that can be read from them. Later I focus on the characteristics of protection measures in nursing homes in Croatia and, using as material media articles that thematize the lives of the people in these institutions, indicate some of the consequences of a strict prevention regime on the lives of these people, their mental and physical health but also some of the fundamental human rights, such as dignity, freedom, and equality.

The Principle of Respect for Autonomy in the Care of Nursing Home Residents

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 419-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghislaine JMW van Thiel ◽  
Johannes JM van Delden
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Good Care ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Respect For Autonomy ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Moral Judgements ◽  
Best Fit

Respect for autonomy is well known as a core element of normative views on good care. Most often it is interpreted in a liberal way, with a focus on independence and self-determination. In this article we argue that this interpretation is too narrow in the context of care in nursing homes. With the aim of developing an alternative view on respect for autonomy in this setting we described four interpretations and investigated the moral intuitions (i.e. moral judgements) of caregivers regarding these approaches. We found that these caregivers seemed to value different notions relating to respect for autonomy under different circumstances. There was no significant difference in moral judgements between men and women or between doctors and nurses. We conclude that a multidimensional understanding of this principle would best fit this context. We end this article with a description of a modest theory of respect for autonomy in nursing homes.

scholarly journals Being a Nursing Home Resident: A Challenge to One's Identity

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Riedl ◽  
Franco Mantovan ◽  
Christa Them
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Nursing Home Resident ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
First Year ◽  
Study Participants

Going into a nursing home can turn out to be a critical life experience if elderly people are afraid of losing their independence and identity after having moved into a nursing home. In order to find out what nursing home residents need in their first year after having moved into a nursing home to maintain their identity and self-determination, 20 problem-orientated interviews with residents of three nursing homes in the Austrian province of Salzburg were conducted and analysed based on content analysis according to Mayring. The participants of this study resist against having decisions taken away from them and fight for their independence and identity. In order to be able to cope with these strains, they need the help of family members, professionals, and identity-forming conversations in new social networks in the nursing home. The study participants draw enough strength from their faith in order to fight for their independence. They develop a new identity close to their previous identity by maintaining autonomy and mobility with a clear focus on the future.

Diagnosing and Treating Depressions in Nursing Home Residents: Challenges for GPs

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Koritsas ◽  
Sandra Davidson ◽  
David Clarke ◽  
Daniel O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Continuity Of Care ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Nursing Home Staff

Depression is more common in elderly people residing in nursing homes than it is in people of the same age residing in the community. In Australia, general practitioners (GPs) are the primary providers of medical services to the elderly in nursing homes; however, they often under-diagnose and/or inadequately treat depression in this population. The difficulties experienced by GPs are confounded by the breakdown in the continuity of care that is evident when a patient is admitted into a nursing home, by inadequate communication between GPs and nursing home staff, and systems within the nursing home that are not conducive to general practice. This paper discusses the challenges GPs face in diagnosing and treating depression in nursing home residents, and provides suggestions for strategies that may overcome these challenges.

scholarly journals The relationship between participation to social activities, life satisfaction, isolation on aged

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
O Erdem ◽  
S Erol ◽  
A Aydoğan ◽  
B Subaşı ◽  
L Kılıç
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Elderly Subjects ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Elderly Individuals ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Objective This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the participation of people living in the nursing homes to social activities and their life satisfaction, social isolation and loneliness. Methods The study was performed between January 2017 and April 2018 in three nursing homes using the cross-sectional research design. The study population consisted of 310 elderly people in total, 118 women, 192 men, who were over 65 years of age and had no mental and communication problems. Ninety percent of the population was reached. The data were collected by using a questionnaire, Standardized Mini Mental Test, Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), Social Isolation Scale (SIS) and Loneliness Scale for Elderly People (LSEP). Descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis variance analysis and Spearman correlation analysis were used in data analysis. Results The mean age of the elderly subjects was 74.10 ± 7.57 years, and 61.9% were male and 38.1% were female. Elderly subjects’ SWLS and LSEP scores were below the median, and their SIS score was above the median value. Elderly people without disabilities, who can meet their own needs, do not feel alone, stay in the healthcare facility of their own accord, are satisfied with the services healthcare facility and with life, do sports, go to cinema and theater in their free time and go out more often had high SWLS median values and low SIS and LSEP values (p &lt; 0,05). Examining scale correlations, a moderate and negative correlation between SWLS and SIS (r= -,59; p=,000) a highly significant and negative correlation between SWLS and LSEP (r= -,70; p=,000) and a positive, statistically moderately significant correlation between SIS and LSEP (r=, 65; p=, 00) were found. Conclusions Life satisfaction increases and social isolation and loneliness decreases when elderly people living in nursing homes participate in social activities. Key messages Loneliness of elderly individuals can be reduced by increasing participation in social activities. Social isolation of elderly individuals can be reduced by increasing participation in social activities.

scholarly journals Sharing meals: promising nutritional interventions for primary health care including nursing students and elderly people

BMC Nutrition ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Kristine Frøyland Alne ◽  
Tove Øie ◽  
Malene Søiland ◽  
Kine Gjesdal
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Nutritional Care ◽  
Nutritional Interventions ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers

Abstract Background The risk of malnutrition among elderly people is high and living alone increases the risk. As the number of older persons living alone is expected to increase due to the demographic development of an increasing older population, more knowledge about low-cost, sustainable nutritional interventions is needed. The purpose of this study was to investigate how nursing students can be a resource in the nutritional care of older persons living alone by sharing weekly meals. Methods Twenty-three nursing students and 23 elderly people who lived alone and received home nursing care participated in the project period of 9 weeks and shared 1–2 weekly meals. Shortly after the study period, 13 students and 4 elderly persons were interviewed in individual, face-to-face, semi-structured interviews. The questions included their experiences, the perceived impact of sharing meals, and facilitators and barriers of such meal interventions. The interview material was transcribed and analyzed using qualitative content analysis as described by Graneheim and Lundman. Results Our study found that both nursing students and older persons expressed positive experiences from sharing meals. Nursing students with some nutritional knowledge can provide a useful, sustainable supplement to the home-care nursing staff’s limited resources and time. Improvements were found, including preparation of ready meals and the meal environment, different facilitators and barriers of the meal experience, and the possible positive impact on the elderly persons’ nutritional status, which affects meal enjoyment, appetite, food intake and weight. Conclusion During their practical placement in the community, nursing students can provide a useful contribution to the nutritional care of elderly persons who are at nutritional risk living alone at home by the intervention of sharing a meal together. This is a low-cost supplement to other primary health-care measures that can affect both nutritional status and adjust the appropriate care for patients. This study demonstrates a small contribution to the complex nutritional care literature based on the growing elderly population in home care and the nursing student as a valuable resource for the multidisciplinary team approach necessary to meet this challenge.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document