Title:
Nursing home adjustment: phases and predictors
Author:
Katherine M. Barteck
Thesis Advisor:
Elizabeth MacDougall
Committee Member:
Beth A. Kotchick
Committee Member:
Jeffrey Barnett
Committee Member:
James Miracky
Committee Member:
Rachel Grover
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2012
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
Given the shift from acute to chronic illness and longer life expectancy, as our population ages, the need for long-term care will also continue to increase. The transition to nursing home care will be an adjustment faced by millions, and yet our understanding of the process of this adjustment is limited. This study attempted to quantify the experience of adjustment to a nursing facility using depression and anxiety measures, the Geriatric Depression Scale-8 item (GDS-8) and the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI), across five time points: admission, two weeks post-admission, and one, two, and three months post admission. -- From the author's abstract
Subject:
Adjustment (Psychology)
Subject:
Nursing home care
Subject:
Nursing home patients
Subject:
Older people--Long-term care
Subject:
Geriatric Depression Scale-8 item
Subject:
Geriatric Anxiety Inventory
Subject:
Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE)
Subject:
Electronic dissertations
Degree:
Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
BarteckKM-12
