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Leisure-Time Activities – Its Program and Importance in the Institutionalized Protection of Old People
Marijana Ljubić
Sažetak
This paper is a »report« or preliminary summation of a larger research project and
paper. Leisure activities programs and their importance have not yet been systematically
investigated in Croatian nursing homes, so this will contribute to a better understanding
of this area of research. Through a ten year period of research study of 60 old
people it has been shown that by the application of organized and suitable leisure activities
we can prevent and redirect the measures so as to continually improve the life quality
of old people living in nursing homes, regardless of their medical condition / place of
residence. The topic of this paper is very popular in gerontological science. The research
applied modern qualitative and quantitative methods of research in gerontology and
therefore represents a novelty to the methodologically obsolete methods that have been
in use in this country so far, which included polls and simplified quantitative processing
of collected data. The results are useful for practical purposes because programs
have been elaborated which will serve to improve the quality of leisure time and active
life-planning in nursing homes. The foundations for further scientific research have been
set with specific goals to focus on the certain aspects of the problems. In that sense, this
paper invites all sorts of other challenging hypothesis to come out (e.g. the ratio of intellectual
activities, active and passive types of activities etc.) and also opens the door for
this kind of methodology in these types of research. This will help increase the number
of such types of research as the qualitative methods of research have been disregarded in
our country.
Ključne riječi
old people; life quality; leisure time program; institutionalization
Hrčak ID:
28182
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2003.
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