Senior quality of life issues

As the number of senior citizens entering retirement facilities increases, new and innovative approaches must be developed to address issues, past and present, affecting senior's quality of life. Findings of a prior study by Stock and Kanter (1980) indicate that responses on the Senior Apperception Techniques could be thematically categorized. The present study utilizes issues elicited by the Senior Apperception Technique to prompt life review and to provide care givers information useful in individualizing care within a retirement setting. Participants consisted of 26 subjects, 13 males and 13 females. Participation was voluntary and the subjects were free of severe emotional, mental, visual and hearing impairements. Collation of data indicates that the Senior Apperception Technique is useful in stimulation of the Life Review Process and, in turn, personalizing data contained within geriatric records.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Counseling and Educational Psychology and Foundations

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1990

Author dc:creator

• Daniel, Sue

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/31

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1030