Ma Lina
Deputy Executive Director, Lions Home for the Elders, Singapore.
Nurs Sci Q. 2014 Apr;27(2):132-41. doi: 10.1177/0894318414522656.
Quality of life is a universal living experience and is significant for older adults living in long-term residential care facilities. The purposes of this research study were to: explicate the experience of quality of life for older adults, contribute to the understanding of quality of life for older adults and to nursing's extant body of knowledge by enhancing humanbecoming. Humanbecoming was selected as the theoretical perspective for the qualitative descriptive exploratory method study with 10 volunteers living in the same long-term residential care facility in Singapore. Findings showed that: quality of life is fortifying tranquillity amid potential turbulence with the gratifying engagements of diverse affiliations, as envisioning possibilities arise with discordant constraints. The findings of this study have made a significant contribution to the phenomenon - quality of life both in terms of older adults living in nursing homes and from a Singaporean context.
生活质量是一种普遍的生活体验，对居住在长期护理机构中的老年人来说意义重大。本研究的目的是：阐明老年人的生活质量体验，通过促进人成为的过程，增进对老年人生活质量以及护理现有知识体系的理解。人成为理论被选为这项定性描述性探索性方法研究的理论视角，研究对象是居住在新加坡同一长期护理机构的10名志愿者。研究结果表明：生活质量是在潜在动荡中强化安宁，有着各种不同联系带来的令人满足的参与，随着不协调的限制出现，对可能性的设想也随之产生。这项研究的结果在居住在养老院的老年人以及新加坡背景方面，都对生活质量这一现象做出了重大贡献。
