title: 'I'm on edge all the time': residents' experiences of living in an integrated nursing home.
abstract: This paper reports on interviews with six residents of an integrated nursing home who were asked: What is it like to live with others who exhibit socially unacceptable behaviours? Using a phenomenological approach, analysis elicited three major themes from participants' descriptions of their experiences: enervation, disenfranchisement and coping. Residents' comments highlighted the overwhelming efforts that their circumstances demanded of them; what these efforts meant to them is interpreted and the implications of the findings for nurses are discussed.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gorman
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009735:Nursing Homes; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*