Social Context—A Neglected Variable in Research on Aging

Bennett, Ruth

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“…Much has been written about the nursing‐home environment and its relationship to the status of the residents (3–5). Bennett (6) reported that little emphasis has been placed on the development and evaluation of programs specifically designed for the prevention of mental, social and physical ailments of the elderly. It is important that rehabilitation programs for the elderly take into account not only the physical, but the social and psychologic needs.…”

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Importance of Resident Placement within a Skilled Nursing Facility

Wiltzius

Gambert

Duthie

1981

J American Geriatrics Society

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Specific attention to the placement of nursing-home residents within a skilled nursing facility is often neglected. a study was made of the effects on mental and emotional status, sensory perception, and capability for the needs of daily living when a mentally incompetent resident was placed as a room-mate with a competent resident. By means of a rating scale designed for this study, the mentally competent subjects were assessed before and after this type of placement. A significant change occurred in mental and emotional status (p less than 0.001) but there was no change in either sensory perception or the ability to perform the tasks of daily living. The data suggest that the placement of a mentally incompetent resident with one who is mentally competent may result in an alteration of mental and emotional status for the latter. It is important that placement conditions be considered in the initial processing of all nursing-home residents.

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Importance of Resident Placement within a Skilled Nursing Facility

Wiltzius

Gambert

Duthie

1981

J American Geriatrics Society

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“…Adjustment to the nursing home environment has been shown to be especially difficult when the individual has not been included in the decision process (Ferrare, 1962). Bennett (1970) has suggested that when a person enters an institution of any kind, the individual undergoes a resocialization process, where previous personal desires and freedom of choice may be changed or subjugated to the needs of the institution. In relation to this phenomenon, Schneider and Coppinger (1971) report that staff members of a nursing home may equate resident adjustment with external criteria such as cooperation and conduct, rather than with internal criteria such as the feelings of residents.…”

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Staff Attitudes Toward the Aged in Nursing Homes: A Review and Suggestions for an Alternate Approach to Training

Winn

Elias

McComb

1978

Educational Gerontology

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A review of staff attitudes toward the aged in nursing homes suggests the presence of a negative feedback situation between staff and patients that promotes negative attitudes toward aging by both parties. Attitudes are reviewed in relation to the level of training of professional and paraprofessional personnel, to include nurse's aides, the nursing staff, and consulting physicians. Suggestions for improvement in the nursing home environment include increased emphasis on geriatric training at all professional levels, a realistic acceptance of negative attitudes toward aging and the aged, a clearer understanding of professional roles of colleagues, and changing societal expectations for nursing home function.

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Conversational Behavior in Two Health Care Institutions for the Elderly

Sigman

1986

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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This article develops a perspective for studying conversational behavior in geriatric institutions. The discussion first considers why conversation is a theoretically significant focus for communications researchers concerned with the aged, and then the article presents data from ethnographic studies of two nursing facilities. Symbolic interactionism underlies the analyses discussed here, for it is suggested that conversations are a means by which interactants communicate about (and so, "construct") their social reality, their relative social statuses, etc. The importance of conversational (more broadly, communicational) behavior for staff-patient relationships in nursing homes is especially highlighted by the data, which were collected over a fifteen-month period.

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Social Context—A Neglected Variable in Research on Aging

Cited by 5 publications

References 70 publications

Importance of Resident Placement within a Skilled Nursing Facility

Importance of Resident Placement within a Skilled Nursing Facility

Staff Attitudes Toward the Aged in Nursing Homes: A Review and Suggestions for an Alternate Approach to Training

Conversational Behavior in Two Health Care Institutions for the Elderly

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