Contrary to Stereotypes, a Nursing Home Resident Radiates Dignity and Joy

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

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...

Power mobility for a nursing home resident with dementia.

OBJECTIVE This case study describes an occupational therapy intervention to increase the self-mobility and social participation of a nursing home resident with dementia using a power wheelchair equipped with a collision-prevention system. METHOD We used an exploratory case study design. Data sources included the medical record, standardized assessments, interviews, observations of daily activ...

Resident contact with family and friends following nursing home admission.

PURPOSE This study explored factors that are related to the level of contact (number of visits and calls) between newly admitted nursing home residents and their family and friends. In addition to reexamining factors studied previously, several new factors were explored: contact level prior to nursing home placement, dementia status, and resident race. DESIGN AND METHODS Interviews were condu...

Attachment B: Encoding Nursing Home Resident Mds Observation and Assessment

Patients Dignity in Nursing

In previous issues of nursing and midwifery studies, several articles have published on nursing ethics and ethical issues in caring. Ghorbani et al. studied nurses' perception of the ethical environment. They suggested that hospital managers need to discover better ways to promote ethical environment of the healthcare organizations (1). Berkiten Ergin et al. have also concluded that cultural di...