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Assisted living facility as a home: Cases in southwest Virginia.

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Title/Author:	Assisted living facility as a home: Cases in southwest Virginia./
Author:	Kim, Youngjoo.
Description:	179 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3481.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-09A.
Subject:	Social Work. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3106788

Assisted living facility as a home: Cases in southwest Virginia.
Kim, Youngjoo.

Assisted living facility as a home: Cases in southwest Virginia. - 179 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3481.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2002.

Older people are as diverse a group as they were as younger people. Home environments should reflect these diverse individuals' varying interests, preferences, and needs. In spite of efforts to remain independent and at home, some elderly people have to leave conventional housing and move into long-term care facilities because of factors such as mental or physical health problems or the loss of family members. Most elderly people who move into these facilities do not feel “at home” in their new living arrangements. Assisted living facilities (ALFs) have been developed as a response to these issues. The major goal of assisted living is to create a supportive social setting that elderly residents can call home. Although assisted living is the fastest growing long-term care alternative, it still needs to continually change in response to the needs of older residents and the desires and interests of family members.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Assisted living facility as a home: Cases in southwest Virginia.
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520 $a Older people are as diverse a group as they were as younger people. Home environments should reflect these diverse individuals' varying interests, preferences, and needs. In spite of efforts to remain independent and at home, some elderly people have to leave conventional housing and move into long-term care facilities because of factors such as mental or physical health problems or the loss of family members. Most elderly people who move into these facilities do not feel “at home” in their new living arrangements. Assisted living facilities (ALFs) have been developed as a response to these issues. The major goal of assisted living is to create a supportive social setting that elderly residents can call home. Although assisted living is the fastest growing long-term care alternative, it still needs to continually change in response to the needs of older residents and the desires and interests of family members.
520 $a The purpose of this study was to examine the features that make residents feel “at home” in ALFs in Southwest Virginia and to suggest further policy and design guidelines for better quality of ALFs as a “home.” For this purpose, residents' needs, experiences, and opinions of the physical environment, the social environment, and the organizational environments such as policies and programs of ALFs were identified.
520 $a As a multi-site case study, I studied five ALFs in Southwest Virginia and did a cross-case analysis. In addition to face-to-face interviews with 25 residents and five administrators of five ALFs, I also conducted observations and recorded my feelings in a personal journal with document review. To analyze the data gathered in this study, I used the constant comparative method of data analysis.
520 $a The respondents' age range was between 64 and 95 and the average age was 82. There were 6 males and 19 females among the respondents and most of them were widowed. They came from a wide geographic area, and most of them have lived in single-family homes for a long time. Many had children or family members nearby.
520 $a Overall, the five sites selected presented homelike features showing the philosophy of assisted living which combines housing and services. Each facility was designed to be a single-family house or multi-family dwelling in outside appearance. However, the older the structure, the fewer homelike features were provided. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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