When and why frail elderly people give up independent living

The Netherlands as an example

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11200007
AutoresNardi Steverink (0000-0003-2810-4365, University Medical Center Groningen, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen21
Número1
Páginas45-69
Fecha de publicación2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAgeing and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0144686x01008066
OpenAlexW2139390613
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas15

As yet the determinants of the need for nursing homes and old age homes are not clearly understood. This may be due to the fact that care facilities providing different levels of care may yield different predictors of use. Moreover, the absence of theory and ignorance of the problems with ‘use‘ as the dependent variable, may be responsible for this. In this study these issues are addressed explicitly. The study focuses on the need for living in an old age home and a theoretical model predicts under what circumstances frail elderly people will express the need for living in such a home. Findings show that, as hypothesised, loss of comfort and affection are among the main predictors of a strong orientation towards living in an old age home. Resources to counter the loss of comfort and affection – a spouse, income, home adaptations, private help, informal and formal home care – were only partly effective in their hypothesised function of deterring orientation towards living in an old age home. Pressure from others to apply for an old age home had the strongest effect. The findings are discussed and some implications for policy are considered

Activities of daily living · Affection · Ignorance · Independent living · Nursing homes · Older people · Political science · Sociology · Spouse · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology