personal space and its effects on an elderly individual in a long-term care institution

Trierweiler, Rosemary

doi:10.3928/0098-9134-19780901-06

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“…Confusion about distinctions among private, semiprivate, sernipublic, and public space leads to strenuous efforts by residents to achieve privacy. Insufficient private or personal space-which can be defined not only architecturally but through furniture arrangement-can discourage personal communication and socialization (Trierweiler, 1978). Personal possessions are important to the well-being of the resident, offering continued context to the elderly and cues to others of the individual's identity.…”

Section: Privacymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Modest Proposal Nursing Home: Dehumanizing Characteristics of Nursing Homes in of Nursing Home Residents

Berdes¹

1987

J Appl Gerontol

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Humanistic care is care that leads to quality of life. The viewpoint of nursing home residents is uniquely indicative of humanistic and dehumanizing care in nursing homes. Therefore, three books by nursing home residents about their experiences in nursing homes are examined in the context of three themes of humanization: control, privacy, and relationships. These insights are then translated into the model "Modest Proposal" Nursing Home, less infeasible than its Swiftian namesake and equally thought-provoking. Some persons of desponding Spirit are in great Concern about that vast Number of poor People, who are Aged, Diseased, or Maimed; and I have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the Nation of so grievous an Incumbrance. But I am not in the least Pain upon that Matter; because it is very well known, that they are every Day dying, and rotting, by Cold and Famine, and Filth, and Vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. (Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal)

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Section: Privacymentioning

confidence: 99%