The relationship of social engagement to psychological well-being of older adults in assisted living facilities

NS Park - Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
… The purpose of this study is to explore social engagement and its relationship to the
psychological well-being of older adults residing in assisted living facilities (ALFs). Drawing on …

Humor coping, health status, and life satisfaction among older adults residing in assisted living facilities

BG Celso, DJ Ebener, EJ Burkhead - Aging & mental health, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
The present study examined the relationships between humor coping, health status, and life
satisfaction among older residents of assisted living facilities. A structural equation model …

Quality of life in assisted living homes: A multidimensional analysis

JM Mitchell, BJ Kemp - The Journals of Gerontology Series B …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
… life (QOL) of senior residents living in assisted living homes: (a) … , (b) social involvement, (c)
facility characteristics, and (d) the … facility social climate upon the QOL of older adults living in …

Aging in place in assisted living: Philosophy versus policy

R Chapin, D Dobbs-Kepper - The Gerontologist, 2001 - academic.oup.com
… If older adults have to move from an assisted living facility to a nursing … Nationwide, we
found that assisted living facilities are admitting and retaining people with a wider range of …

Successful aging among assisted living community older adults

M Kozar‐Westman… - Journal of Nursing …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aging Inventory (SAI) in an effort to describe successful aging among older adults currently
living in assisted living … assess some of the characteristics of successful aging in this group. …

A national survey of assisted living facilities

C Hawes, CD Phillips, M Rose, S Holan… - The …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… (a) serve mainly older persons; (b) … assisted living facility or a facility that offers at least two
meals a day, housekeeping, 24-hr staff, and assistance with one or more activity of daily living

Behavioral patterns of older adults in assisted living

G Virone, M Alwan, S Dalal, SW Kell… - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… an assisted living care setting, where persons who need an intermediate level of care and
some assistance in some of their activities of daily living transition to from independent living

Physical and psychosocial correlates of fear of falling among older adults in assisted living facilities

AY Sharaf, HS Ibrahim - Journal of Gerontological nursing, 2008 - journals.healio.com
… a sample of ambulatory older adults living in assisted living facilities. Therefore, the current
findings cannot be generalized to a wider older adult population living in the community. Third…

Sleep disturbance among older adults in assisted living facilities

CH Fung, JL Martin, C Chung, L Fiorentino… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
… , an increasing number of Americans will enter assisted living facilities (ALFs), which serve
… of daily living (ADL) and who are no longer able to live independently in their own homes. …

Do impaired older persons with health care needs occupy US assisted living facilities? An analysis of six national studies

SM Golant - The Journals of Gerontology Series B …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… -term care alternative for frail older persons in the United States. This analysis assesses the
extent to which older persons with physical and cognitive disabilities and health care needs …