title: The meaning of home: a qualitative meta-synthesis.
abstract: Practice-based initiatives have emphasized the need to provide "homelike" environments in long-term care. This study adds to the discourse on the meaning of home by synthesizing several individual qualitative studies using Noblit and Hare's method of meta-ethnography. The purpose of this larger synthesis is to bring the findings from several discrete studies into a larger interpretive perspective that will lead to ongoing theory and practice development to enable experiences of home during residential transition, thereby informing nursing praxis in creating and shaping therapeutic environments.
authors.affiliation: University School of Nursing, 100 Church Street South, PO Box 9740, New Haven, CT 06536-0740, USA. sheila.molony@yale.edu
authors.forename: Sheila L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Molony
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008134:Long-Term Care; D019365:Metaphor; D009735:Nursing Homes; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011788:Quality of Life