Satisfaction with the lives of elderly nursing homes residents

Abstract

Introduction. Ageing of societies is a process apparent in nearly all countries worldwide. Many families will not be able to provide care services for the elderly, the burden of care will fall mainly on public and private institutions. This puts employees of nursing homes in front of numerous challenges in order to provide seniors with improvement of their life satisfaction.Aim. The purpose of the study was to assess the life satisfaction of elderly nursing home residents in the Mazovian region and to demonstrate variables that affect it.Material and methods.. The research was carried out in 2018 among the 250 elderly nursing home residents from Mazovia. During the test, a diagnostic survey method and a questionnaire technique were used. The research tool was the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), Katz’s Activities of Daily Living Scale, Hodgkinson’s Abbreviated Mental Test Score, Basic Hope Inventory (BHI-12), Acceptance of Illness Scale (AIS), and the authors’ survey questionnaire.Results. Among the respondents, the dominant group included people with low life satisfaction (42.8%). A statistically significant relationship was found between life satisfaction and the age of the respondents and selected psychometric scales. There was no such correlation for the level of mobility, duration of stay at the nursing home and the size of the inhabited facility.Conclusions. Elderly people living in nursing homes from Mazovia enjoy life satisfaction at a low and average level. The results distinguish three groups of residents exhibiting a lower satisfaction with life, namely, new arrivals, the oldest, and suffering from a minimum of one illness. Nursing home personnel who deal with patients on an everyday basis should aim to improve their life satisfaction.

Sleep quality as a mediator between family function and life satisfaction among Chinese older adults in nursing home

“…In this study, the mean LSI-A score was approximately 62% of the total score. Similar to previous studies [ 50 , 51 ] on life satisfaction of older adults in NHs, the score was lower than that of elderly people in the community [ 10 ], indicating poor life satisfaction among this population.Trybusińska et al's study also showed that older adults in NHs had a lower level of life satisfaction [ 52 ]. Many factors may contribute to the decreased life satisfaction of elderly individuals, such as health status, changes in living environment, emotional satisfaction, and family relationships [ 11 , 12 ], quality of service provided by nursing home staff [ 53 ].…”