| Summary: | 碩士 === 義守大學 === 管理學院管理碩士在職專班 === 100 === Objective: The objective of the study was to explore the personal information, autonomy, and life satisfaction among residents living in long-term care facilities.
Method: A cross-sectional design, a convenience sample of 261 participants was recruited from 15 long-term care facilities. Inclusion criteria were: 50 years old and above, SPMSQ ≧ 6, able to communicate in Taiwanese or Mandarin. Medical records, a structured questionnaire for autonomy, and SERVQUAL were used to collect participants’ personal information, autonomy, and life satisfaction. Data collection was from July, 2011 to February, 2012. SPSS (17.0 version) was used to analyze the data.
Findings: Participants’ average age was 73.97 years old. Most of them were males, without spouse/partners, living with their family before institutionalized, having financial support by their children. The majority of them were with a severe to moderate level of daily functioning. Eight-three percent of them had at least one chronic diseases; particularly hypertension, diabetes, and cervical vascular disease. Participants reported above average scores on aspects of life satisfaction in lives.
Participants who with a moderate level of daily functioning, having financial support by themselves, making decision of residing in institutions by themselves, not living in 4-bed room, and institution near their family, reported high scores on overall and perceptions of quality of services than their counterparties. With regards to economic autonomy, the scores on overall and perceptions of quality of services in term of decreasing were: pay by participants themselves, pay by children/family, and pay from the government.
Conclusion: The findings suggests that long-term care professionals should take into considerations age groups, religious differences, daily functioning, the degree of autonomy while arranging activities and spaces to meet residents ‘physical and psychological needs. Also, long-term care professionals need to provide residents with quality of services on hospitality, benefits, and health and safety issues.
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