Nursing home satisfaction,biography, and the life worlds of psychiatrically disabled residents |
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| Institution: | 1. Center for Health Management and Policy Research, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China;2. NHC Key Laboratory of Health Economics and Policy Research, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China;3. University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Section of Geriatrics;4. Home Centered Care Institute;5. University of Massachusetts Boston, Gerontology Institute |
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| Abstract: | The stereotype of nursing home life as a uniformly dismal experience is pervasive in American culture, but this examination of the attitudes of psychiatrically disabled residents calls this generality into question. Residents in this study exemplified a range of opinions about the nursing home — some were clearly satisfied or dissatisfied, but most were ambivalent. In this paper, I explore the relationship between nursing home satisfaction and individual interpretive activity through the biographies of three residents. I find that how residents made sense of their lives was powerfully linked to their perspectives on nursing home residence. In particular, satisfaction was linked to how each resident viewed his or her illness, institutionalization, and life purpose. Understanding the phenomenological contributors to the meaning of nursing home life is essential to appreciating how it is that residents in the same environment can have vastly different outlooks on their surroundings. |
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