Download or read book Generating a Model of Quality of Life for Older Nursing Home Residents in the Lebanon written by Marina Adra and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: Over the past two decades, the growing number of older people in the Lebanon, the advances in medical technology, and the changing family patterns of support have combined together to increase access to long-term care facilities for older people. Lebanon, like other developing countries, still needs to define the policies and programs that will reduce the burden of an ageing population on its society and economy. Moreover, there is a need to ensure the availability of health and social services for older people and to promote the older person"s continuing participation in a socially and economically productive life in long-term care institutions. Whilst quality of life is a meaningful expression in the Lebanon, it remains a sophisticated and complex construct and it provokes considerable debate about its constituent parts. This study contributes to the debate by presenting a model of factors determining quality of life for older people residing in two Lebanese nursing homes. This grounded theory is built on the analysis of data collected in interviews with older residents, staff members and family carers with the aim of exploring the meaning of quality of life in the nursing home setting from different contexts. Aims and Objectives: The overall aim of this study is to explore the perceptions, perspectives and meaning of quality of life for a theoretical sample of older people living in Lebanese nursing homes, care staff and family carers and to produce an explanatory theoretical model of experience using the classic approach to generating grounded theory. The research objectives were to: identify factors that older people living in nursing homes believe constitute a meaningful and good quality of life; identify the role of the staff employed by nursing homes in helping to support quality of life; and identify the meaning that families attach to quality of life and how this is constructed. Results: Constant comparative analysis of data generated from the three groups of participants led to the emergence of three interrelated sub-core categories: "maintaining self" for older residents, "maintaining identity" for staff members, and "maintaining continuity" for family carers. Each of these sub-core categories consisted of either three or four properties/phases to explain the experience of the older resident, the staff member, and the family carer in their trajectory towards achieving and sustaining quality of life. Following a theoretical integration, the three sets of sub-core categories were conceptually connected through the linking scheme of "maintaining interrelationships". Transcending the data, and by increasing theoretical sensitivity, the core category of "relating" emerged to explain the dynamics of quality of life. "Relating" was also found to have temporal dimensions that worked on sustaining, restoring, and creating interrelationships, processes that had the "fit and grab" necessary to shed new light on the meaning of quality of life for all participants. Conclusion: This study is one of the few that has explicitly explored quality of life in nursing homes from the perspectives of all the key actors. As such it has made an important contribution to the literature particularly in recognising the role of "relating" and "maintaining interrelationships" in enhancing quality of life in nursing homes in the Lebanon. The contribution of the substantive grounded theory emerging from this study is not solely restricted to helping interpret the everyday experience of quality of life, but also includes implications for policy and practice.
Download or read book Resident Assessment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring the Factors that Influence Quality of Life Among Nursing Home Residents written by Efrat Adler and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality of Life as Perceived by Nursing Home Residents written by Melanie Kalapos and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality of Life and Person Centered Care for Older People written by Thomas Boggatz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the meaning of quality of life in care for older persons and introduces the reader to their main concerns when receiving care. Based on qualitative research, it pays particular attention to the needs and requirements of older people, considering their individual family situations, social circumstances, values and lifestyles. Person-centred care is a way of providing nursing care that puts older people and their families at the core of all decisions, seeing each person as an individual, and working together to develop appropriate solutions. Following an introduction to the concept of quality of life in old age, the book reviews essential findings from worldwide research into the experiences of older people with regard to nursing care and the impact of these experiences on their quality of life. It investigates health promotion, care provided in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and palliative care. Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the respective field of nursing care and the problems it has to deal with, concluding with a discussion of their implications for nursing practice in the respective field of care. In closing, the evidence from qualitative research is discussed in relation to current gerontological theories.
Download or read book Dying in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying in the United States is often characterized by fragmented care, inadequate treatment of distressing symptoms, frequent transitions among care settings, and enormous care responsibilities for families. According to this report, the current health care system of rendering more intensive services than are necessary and desired by patients, and the lack of coordination among programs increases risks to patients and creates avoidable burdens on them and their families. Dying in America is a study of the current state of health care for persons of all ages who are nearing the end of life. Death is not a strictly medical event. Ideally, health care for those nearing the end of life harmonizes with social, psychological, and spiritual support. All people with advanced illnesses who may be approaching the end of life are entitled to access to high-quality, compassionate, evidence-based care, consistent with their wishes. Dying in America evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families. The findings and recommendations of this report will address the needs of patients and their families and assist policy makers, clinicians and their educational and credentialing bodies, leaders of health care delivery and financing organizations, researchers, public and private funders, religious and community leaders, advocates of better care, journalists, and the public to provide the best care possible for people nearing the end of life.
Download or read book Our Parents Ourselves written by Judith Steinberg Turiel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-11-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our Parents, Ourselves is the best presentation of our aging, and of general healthcare issues that I have ever seen. Tremendously important."—Henrik Blum, M.D., MPH, Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley "This book could well transform how we as a country address aging and caregiving for generations to come."—Lynn Friss Feinberg, MSW, Deputy Director, National Center on Caregiving at Family Caregiver Alliance "Turiel's book can help elders and their families find humane care in our often inhumane and uncaring health care system."— Steffi Woolhandler, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program
Download or read book Meeting Mental Health Needs written by Alexander M. Ponizovsky and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarises findings of studies that are united by a common theme of needs of psychiatric patients in Israel. The studies were performed from 2001-2010, in the Research Unit of Mental Health Services at the Ministry of Health and were motivated by the authors' deep need to learn more about the met and mainly unmet needs of mentally ill people, and an urgent demand to develop innovative health services or adjust the existing ones to both meet the needs and improve the quality of care and quality of life of their patients. Although the conception of need is a composite one and can be defined in multiple ways to include different aspects of common wishes motivating human activities and ways of their fulfilment, the authors' used the Bradshaw definition of need (1972) as perceived' need or what individuals believe they require. Within the context of health care, a need was considered as a lack of health or welfare, or a lack of access to care. All the investigations were conducted t in parallel with the Mental Health Reform in Israel and, therefore, reflect the specific needs and demands of deinstitutionalisation. The selection of topics, the emphasis on briefly summarising research findings rather than exhaustively reviewing the scientific literature and providing practical recommendations are intended to make the book an interesting and useful resource for policymakers, clinicians, and other health professionals, such as clinical psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, general and family medical practitioners, nursing personnel, family members and other support persons, and perhaps mentally ill persons themselves.
Download or read book Camberwell Assessment of Need for the Elderly written by Juanita Hoe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated, the CANE is the recommended tool for assessing the mental health needs of older people.
Download or read book Long Term Care Services in the United States 2013 Overview written by National Center for Health Statistics and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term care services include a broad range of services that meet the needs of frail older people and other adults with functional limitations. Long-Term care services provided by paid, regulated providers are a significant component of personal health care spending in the United States. This report presents descriptive results from the first wave of the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers (NSLTCP), which was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). This report provides information on the supply, organizational characteristics, staffing, and services offered by providers of long-term care services; and the demographic, health, and functional composition of users of these services. Service users include residents of nursing homes and residential care communities, patients of home health agencies and hospices, and participants of adult day services centers.
Download or read book Hospital Literature Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Future Directions for the Demography of Aging written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-07-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 25 years have passed since the Demography of Aging (1994) was published by the National Research Council. Future Directions for the Demography of Aging is, in many ways, the successor to that original volume. The Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to produce an authoritative guide to new directions in demography of aging. The papers published in this report were originally presented and discussed at a public workshop held in Washington, D.C., August 17-18, 2017. The workshop discussion made evident that major new advances had been made in the last two decades, but also that new trends and research directions have emerged that call for innovative conceptual, design, and measurement approaches. The report reviews these recent trends and also discusses future directions for research on a range of topics that are central to current research in the demography of aging. Looking back over the past two decades of demography of aging research shows remarkable advances in our understanding of the health and well-being of the older population. Equally exciting is that this report sets the stage for the next two decades of innovative researchâ€"a period of rapid growth in the older American population.
Download or read book Long term Care Providers and Services Users in the United States 2015 2016 written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living and Dying at Murray Manor written by Jaber F. Gubrium and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic text that documents the "work" of everyday life in a nursing home. In 1973 sociologist Jaber F. Gubrium spent several months at a nursing home as a participant-observer. Through his observations, interviews, and transcriptions, Gubrium recounts case studies of clients, doctors, the dynamics between them, patient socialization, and the intimacies of daily hygiene.
Download or read book Happiness Is a Choice You Make written by John Leland and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller! An extraordinary look at what it means to grow old and a heartening guide to well-being, Happiness Is a Choice You Make weaves together the stories and wisdom of six New Yorkers who number among the “oldest old”— those eighty-five and up. In 2015, when the award-winning journalist John Leland set out on behalf of The New York Times to meet members of America’s fastest-growing age group, he anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met took him in an entirely different direction. Despite disparate backgrounds and circumstances, they each lived with a surprising lightness and contentment. The reality Leland encountered upended contemporary notions of aging, revealing the late stages of life as unexpectedly rich and the elderly as incomparably wise. Happiness Is a Choice You Make is an enduring collection of lessons that emphasizes, above all, the extraordinary influence we wield over the quality of our lives. With humility, heart, and wit, Leland has crafted a sophisticated and necessary reflection on how to “live better”—informed by those who have mastered the art.
Download or read book Disease Prevention and Oral Health Promotion written by Lois K. Cohen and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996-01-12 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, authored and edited by leading international scientists, provides a thorough review, analysis and recommendations of what the behavioural and social science are contributing to the practice both in the context of clinical and community settings.
Download or read book Physiological Basis of Aging and Geriatrics written by Paola S. Timiras and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensively revised and updated to reflect the current state of knowledge in the study of aging, this Fourth Edition offers a complete profile of the aging process at all levels, from molecules and cells to demography and evolution. Written by international experts in current basic and clinical aging research, this text includes aspects of individual, comparative, and differential aging, and discussions of theories and mechanisms of aging. This invaluable reference illustrates how bodily systems, organs, and functions are affected with aging, describes how genetic and environmental factors influence age-related changes, and addresses some of the clinical consequences of these changes for health and longevity. Well illustrated, with numerous tables and graphs, this book presents up-to-date information from internationally renowned experts in various bio-medical fields.
