title: Culturally and linguistically diverse older adults relocating to residential aged care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore nursing home relocation experiences of overseas-born, culturally and linguistically diverse elderly.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using a grounded theory approach, interviews were conducted with 20 residents of four nursing homes in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Consistent with the grounded theory method, the initial objectives of exploring the participants' nursing home relocation experience focused on the pathways they had taken en route to nursing homes and the strategies used to bring their cultures with them.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Participants made little suggestion that culture was an important consideration in their decision making about responding to loss or moving to the nursing home until they began discussing offers of care from their family. Cultural considerations are important factors in assessing the quality of a nursing home and in strategies used for settling into the home. Notably, many of the cultural practices and meanings described by residents were common to many cultures and were experienced by older adults as culturally meaningful.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Australian Catholic University, Banyo, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yeboah
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bowers
authors.forename: Colleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rolls
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001315:Australia; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D009735:Nursing Homes