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| Life review: preventing despair in newly relocated nursing home residents: short- and long-term effects | | Author(s) | Barbara K Haight, Yvonne Michel, Shirley Hendrix |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 47, no 2, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 119-142 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Life span ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Admission [nursing homes] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Relocation to a nursing home places frail older people at risk for developing depression and suicide ideation. This US study followed 256 newly relocated nursing home residents for 5 years. Using a Solomon Four research design, participants were divided into four groups, two control and two experimental, one each with pre-testing and all with post-testing. Participants in the control groups received a friendly visit and those in the experimental groups received the intervention of life review. Immediate short-term results showed the life review to be an effective preventive intervention for clinical depression. Additionally, when looking at long-term effects at one year, there were significant increases in depression, hopelessness, and psychological well-being with measurable increases in life satisfaction. These findings support the hypothesis that life review prevents despair in frail older people recently admitted to a nursing home. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981110411 A |
| Classmark | ENR: BG6: DB: LHB:QKH: 7T |
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