title: Supporting residents moving into long-term care: multiple layers shape residents' experiences.
abstract: This interpretive grounded theory study explores 10 residents' retrospective accounts of the relocation process, including the decision to move into a long-term care home, the pre-move preparations, the moving day circumstances, and the initial adjustment period following the move. Analysis of the data revealed a complex intersection of conditions at multiple layers that shaped residents' experiences of the transitional process. Recommendations to enhance circumstances at individual, interpersonal, and systemic layers, for each temporal stage of the relocation process are proposed. Implications for social work practice across the continuum of care are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: a School of Social Work , McGill University , Montreal , Canada.
authors.forename: Tamara
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sussman
authors.forename: Sherry
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dupuis
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards; D008297:Male; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000592:standards; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life; D012189:Retrospective Studies
keywords: long-term care; nursing home; older adults; relocation; residents