| Title |
Socialiai globojamų vyresnio amžiaus asmenų gyvenimo kokybės veiksniai / |
| Translation of Title |
FActors of life quality of eldelry socially dependent people. |
| Authors |
Orlova, Urtė Lina |
| Full Text |
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| Pages |
271 |
| Keywords [eng] |
quality of life ; grounded theory ; elderly people ; gerontological social work |
| Abstract [eng] |
Lithuanian society is aging and need for social services is contsanly increasing. Therefore it is important to understand the increasing role of care services for elderly people, which allows living longer and enjoying better quality of life. Elderly people (+65) who become socially dependent have possibility to move to the residential care institution. The scenario of moving into long-term care institution has big impact on life quality of elderly person. Constructivist grounded theory methodology (Charmaz, 2006) allows to reach field of long-term residential care and analyse subjective quality of life, values and attitudes of elderly socially dependent residents. In the process of constructing grounded theory seven factors of life quality were identified. In the process of data analysis three models of adaptation to new status of socially dependent person and resident of residential home were identified. Research participants experience crisis while changing the living place and moving into residential care home. “Capability” is the main analytical category. Social care institutions and care professional should be aware of the need of methods and skills to effectively manage crises. Results show that such factors as are found in most foreign research areas despite of cultural and social contexts. In Lithuanian society specific factors of life quality is identified. |
| Type |
Doctoral thesis |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2014 |
