The Relationship of Death Anxiety With Loneliness and Psychological Well-Being in the Elderly Living in a Nursing Home

This descriptive correlational study aimed relationship of death anxiety with loneliness and psychological well-being in the elderly living in a nursing home. The study was conducted on the elderly living in a nursing home in Istanbul, Turkey, between November 2021-February 2022. The study sample included 165 nursing home residents. The Sociodemographic Characteristics Form, Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), Loneliness Scale for the Elderly (LSE) and Psychological Well-Being Scale were used as data collection tools. The elderly participants obtained a mean score of 6.10 ± 3.50 from DAS, a mean score of 9.01 ± 4.08 from LSE, and a mean score of 38.97 ± 10.05 from Psychological Well-Being Scale. When death anxiety scale mean score of the elderly was compared with their mean scores of loneliness scale and psychological well-being scale, a weak and negative correlation was determined between psychological well-being and loneliness ( p < 0.001). As the mean score of psychological well-being scale increases, loneliness scale mean score decreases

Anxiety · Death anxiety · Loneliness · Psychiatry · Scale (ratio · UCLA Loneliness Scale · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Medicine · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Gerontology

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