How Elderly Nursing Home Residents Transcend Losses of Later Life

Holistic Nursing Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 159-165

  Bickerstaff, Kathleen A ^a   Grasser, Carol M ^b   McCabe, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Generativity; Introjectivity; Nursing home; Spirituality; Transcendence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; LITERATURE; NURSING HOME; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANECDOTES; BEREAVEMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; NURSING HOMES; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 0038409856     PISSN: 08879311     EISSN: 15505138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004650-200305000-00007     Document Type: Article

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