title: Gerontological nursing. The concept of comfort in an environmental framework.
abstract: The Facilitative Environment Framework organizes a holistic gerontological practice. Comfort describes the state of patients when their excess physiological and psychological needs have been met. Patients must be in a state of comfort before they can perform the tasks of optimum function. The Facilitative Environment Framework was applied to a dementia setting, but it is suitable for other gerontological settings as well.
authors.forename: K Y
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Kolcaba
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D017060:Patient Satisfaction