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Nursing Home Entry: Meaning Making by Relatives
Author(s) -
Nay R.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
australian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 0726-4240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-6612.1996.tb00009.x
Subject(s) - grounded theory , nursing homes , nursing , meaning (existential) , phenomenology (philosophy) , hermeneutic phenomenology , lived experience , medicine , psychology , qualitative research , sociology , psychotherapist , epistemology , social science , philosophy
In‐depth interviews are being conducted with relatives of nursing home residents regarding their experience of nursing home entry. This paper reports on preliminary analysis of the texts generated by interviews with nineteen relatives. Grounded in hermeneutic phenomenology, the study explores and describes these experiences. Seven themes are described which assist understanding of the experience from the decision making through to nursing home entry.