Review of psychology, Vol. 11 No. 1-2, 2004.
Original scientific paper
Activities in nursing homes: A descriptive study in Southern Austria
Brigitte Jenull-Schiefer
Herbert Janig
Abstract
This study aimed at (1) assessing activities and services offered by nursing homes, (2) estimating the residents' and the nurses' contentedness about the residents’ activities, and (3) finding out the residents' and nurses' wishes for alterations in the home routine. Based on the information of 255 residents and 171 nurses in eleven Austrian nursing homes our results showed that there was a great discrepancy of the values between the residents' and the nurses' view of an active daily life in the institution. While residents expressed the wish for more activities in the nursing homes, nurses wanted a facilitation of their care work.
Keywords
nursing home; activities; contentedness; nurses; residents
Hrčak ID:
1984
URI
Publication date:
22.1.2005.
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