Kontakt 2005, 7(3-4):232-238 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2005.046

Institutional care and quality of life of elderly peopleNursing

Ivan Farský1,*, Katarína Žiaková1, Igor Ondrejka2
1 Ústav ošetrovateľstva JLF UK v Martine
2 Psychiatrická klinika JLF UK a MFN v Martine

The work is aimed at specific features of the quality of life of elderly people living in facilities of the institutional community care. The group included 60 persons (30 women, 30 men) of 74.1 ± 5.7 years of age. Of them, 30 persons lived in a boarding house and 30 persons lived in an old people house. Differences in the quality of their life, well-being, meaning of the life, type of involvement, gender, time of stay in the facility, evaluation of health condition, satisfaction with accommodation conditions and general satisfaction were determined depending on the type of care and gender. The quality of life was assessed by the PCASEE scale, the well-being by the well-being questionnaire, involvement by the involvement scale, meaning of life by the logo test, dependence by the Barthel index. The evaluation of the health, satisfaction with accommodation conditions and general satisfaction were considered based on the self-assessment scale. The clients of the old people home had a significantly lower quality of life, more bio-psycho-social problems, they evaluated their health conditions more negatively and they were less satisfied with the stay in the facility in comparison with clients of the boarding house for retired persons. The involvement in the family and household in men was larger than that in women. Thus, the method for following the quality of life can be effectively employed in practice in the identification of problems and needs of elderly people and in the indication of specific forms of the care.

Keywords: elderly people; quality of life; health; institutional care

Published: November 22, 2005  Show citation

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Farský I, Žiaková K, Ondrejka I. Institutional care and quality of life of elderly people. Kontakt. 2005;7(3-4):232-238. doi: 10.32725/kont.2005.046.
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