Building and maintaining bridges: meeting the psychosocial needs of nursing home residents and their families.
Elderly residents of nursing homes have many of the same needs as new members of any organization: to be oriented, to form a new support base, to establish a new role definition, and redefine previous roles. Resident families undergo related changes which must be addressed if a satisfactory adjustment is to be effected. Techniques to facilitate these changes and barriers to their implementation are discussed.
D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D014481:United States