Master of Public Health Program, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON.
Can J Aging. 2010 Sep;29(3):425-34. doi: 10.1017/S0714980810000401. Epub 2010 Aug 6.
The move to a long-term care facility can be particularly traumatic for new residents. Staff can make this transition easier in a number of ways. However, the staff's perceptions of the transition process and residents' experiences will play a significant part in determining the type of support that is given residents during the transition. The purpose of this research was to examine the staff's perceptions of a person's coming to live in a long-term care environment. Using in-depth interviews with staff from one long-term care facility, three main themes emerged that encompassed descriptions of residents' lives. Essentially, the staff described how residents learned to live a life involving various factors in three main categories--life around losses, life around the institution, and life around the body.
将居民转移到长期护理机构可能会对新居民造成特别大的创伤。工作人员可以通过多种方式使这种过渡更容易。然而，工作人员对过渡过程的看法和居民的体验将在很大程度上决定在过渡期间为居民提供的支持类型。本研究的目的是考察工作人员对一个人进入长期护理环境的看法。通过对一家长期护理机构的工作人员进行深入访谈，出现了三个主要主题，涵盖了居民生活的描述。从本质上讲，工作人员描述了居民如何在三个主要类别中学习生活，涉及各种因素——围绕损失的生活、围绕机构的生活和围绕身体的生活。
