Life Review: Preventing Despair in Newly Relocated Nursing Home Residents Short- and Long-Term Effects

Relocation to a nursing home places frail elders at risk for developing depression and suicide ideation. This study followed two hundred and fifty-six newly relocated nursing home residents for five years. Using a Solomon Four research design, participants were divided into four groups, two control...

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Published in:International journal of aging & human development 1998, Vol.47 (2), p.119-142
Main Authors: Haight, Barbara K., Michel, Yvonne, Hendrix, Shirley
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adjustment (to Environment)
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Aging (Individuals)
Aging - psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Client satisfaction
Depression (Psychology)
Depression - prevention & control
Despair
Elderly
Elderly people
Frail Elderly
Gerontology
Hopelessness
Humans
Institutionalization (Persons)
Intervention
Life History
Life satisfaction
Long Term Care
Medical sciences
Memory
Mental depression
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
Nursing Homes
Older Adults
Older people
Pessimism
Prevention
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychotherapies. Psychological and clinical counseling
Relocation
Reminiscence therapy
Research design
Solomon Four Group Design
Suicide
Time Factors
Treatments
Well being
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Summary:Relocation to a nursing home places frail elders at risk for developing depression and suicide ideation. This study followed two hundred and fifty-six newly relocated nursing home residents for five years. Using a Solomon Four research design, participants were divided into four groups, two control and two experimental, one each with pretesting and all with posttesting. 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 (p = .05). Additionally, when looking at long-term effects at one year, there were significant decreases in depression (p = .05), hopelessness (p = .01), and psychological well-being (p = .02) with measurable increases in life satisfaction (p = .08). These findings support the hypothesis that life review prevents despair in frail elders newly admitted to a nursing home.
ISSN:0091-4150
1541-3535
DOI:10.2190/A011-BRXD-HAFV-5NJ6