title: An exploration of emotional health in nursing home residents: making the pieces fit.
abstract: From early childhood to death, there are few things that are more important to the average individual than independence. The desire for autonomy certainly does not end when a person enters a nursing home. It is, however, impacted by both physical and emotional health. The purpose of the pilot descriptive correlational study reported here was 2-fold: to examine relationships between the emotional health factors of loneliness and depression of residents in a nursing home and to determine if the standardized loneliness and depression scales were appropriate for identification of the conditions in this population.
authors.affiliation: Immanuel Fontenelle Home, Omaha, NE, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Krohn
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authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bergman-Evans
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D008132:Loneliness; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009735:Nursing Homes