Living in a nursing home: a phenomenological study exploring residents’ loneliness and other feelings

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 1477-1484

  Paque, Kristel ^a,c,d   Bastiaens, Hilde ^a   Van Bogaert, Peter ^a   Dilles, Tinne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Thomas More University College   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

autonomy; existential; grief; loneliness; nursing home; phenomenological study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTERVIEW; LONELINESS; MALE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PHENOMENOLOGY; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSION; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOME FOR THE AGED; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 85053216494     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/scs.12599     Document Type: Article

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