ArticleJournal of aging studies2018
Contours of "here": Phenomenology of space for assisted living residents approaching end of life.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Longing for continuity: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research on the experience of older people living with chronic illness towards the end of life.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Pooled it
- Resident and Caregiver Dyads Talk About Death and Dying in Assisted Living: A Typology of Communication Behaviors.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2024Article
- Turning It Over to God: African American Assisted Living Residents' End-of-Life Preferences and Advance Care Planning.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Review
- Understanding Capacity and Optimizing Meaningful Engagement among Persons Living with Dementia.Dementia (London, England) · 2023Article
- "You gotta have your cry": Administrator and direct care worker experiences of death in assisted living.Journal of aging studies · 2022Article
- Ethics of Health Information Sharing and Social Relationships at End of Life in Assisted Living.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2022Article
- Assisted Living Residents With Dementia: Being Out in the World and Negotiating Connections.The Gerontologist · 2022Article
- Assisted Living Administrators' Approaches to Advance Care Planning.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2022Article
- Barriers and Facilitators to Exercise Participation Among Frail Older African American Assisted Living Residents.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2021Article
- Communicative Competence: Responding to Residents' Health Changes in Assisted Living.The Gerontologist · 2020Article
- Optimizing Quality of Life With Cognitive Impairment: A Study of End-of-Life Care in Assisted Living.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2020Observational
- Individualization and the Health Care Mosaic in Assisted Living.The Gerontologist · 2019Article
- "It's Going to be Different for Everyone": Negotiating Quality of Life and Care Priorities Within Care Convoys.Journal of aging and healthArticle
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Abstract
Informed by theory from environmental gerontology, this study investigates how assisted living residents who are approaching end of life navigate and experience space. Since its development, environmental gerontology has moved beyond the concept of person-environment fit to encompass aspects of place attachment and place integration, processes by which inhabited impersonal space becomes a place of individual personal meaning and this person-place relationship evolves with changing needs. Our study is a secondary data analysis of in-depth interviews completed with the first 15 residents (mean age 88, range 65-103; 8 white and 7 black) recruited from four diverse assisted living communities in metropolitan Atlanta. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, we identify five overarching themes within and across assisted living communities and their subthemes. Findings show that participants experience a neutral theme of shrinking space, negative themes of confinement and vulnerability, and positive themes of safety and intimacy. Results dovetail with other phenomenologically based environmental gerontology research from community-dwelling populations that indicate behavioral changes to accommodate aging and health decline. Findings have implications for interventions to improve place integration in AL and enhance residents' quality of life at end of life, including developing strategies to promote small meaningful journeys within context of shrinking life space.
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