Assessing and Comparing Physical Environments for Nursing Home Residents: Using New Tools for Greater Research Specificity | Zendy

Lois J. Cutler | Zendy; Rosalie A. Kane | Zendy; Howard Degenholtz | Zendy; Michael J. Miller | Zendy; Leslie Grant | Zendy

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Assessing and Comparing Physical Environments for Nursing Home Residents: Using New Tools for Greater Research Specificity

Author(s) -

Lois J. Cutler,

Rosalie A. Kane,

Howard Degenholtz,

Michael J. Miller,

Leslie Grant

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/46.1.42

Subject(s) - observational study , inter rater reliability , data collection , unit (ring theory) , affect (linguistics) , personalization , quality (philosophy) , applied psychology , nursing homes , nursing , psychology , computer science , medicine , rating scale , statistics , developmental psychology , philosophy , mathematics education , mathematics , communication , epistemology , pathology , world wide web

We developed and tested theoretically derived procedures to observe physical environments experienced by nursing home residents at three nested levels: their rooms, the nursing unit, and the overall facility. Illustrating with selected descriptive results, in this article we discuss the development of the approach.

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