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Crucial aspects promoting meaning and purpose in life: perceptions of nursing home residents

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Geriatrics, October 2017
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Title
Crucial aspects promoting meaning and purpose in life: perceptions of nursing home residents
Published in
BMC Geriatrics, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12877-017-0650-x
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Authors

Jorunn Drageset, Gørill Haugan, Oscar Tranvåg

Abstract

Meaning and purpose in life are fundamental to human beings. In changing times, with an aging population and increased life expectancy, the need for health care services and long-term care is likely to grow. More deeply understanding how older long-term care residents perceive meaning and purpose in life is critical for improving the quality of care and the residents' quality of life. The purpose of this study was to explore crucial aspects promoting nursing home residents' experience of meaning and purpose in everyday life. An exploratory hermeneutical design with qualitative interviews for collecting data. Four key experiences were found to promote meaning and purpose in life: 1) physical and mental well-being, 2) belonging and recognition, 3) personally treasured activities and 4) spiritual closeness and connectedness. In supporting meaning and purpose in life of nursing home residents, the residents' everyday well-being should be a central focus of care and facilitate personally treasured activities. Focused attention should also be given to the meaning-making power of experiencing belonging, recognition and spiritual connectedness.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 128 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 18%
Student > Bachelor 22 17%
Lecturer 11 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Other 16 13%
Unknown 42 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 40 31%
Psychology 14 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 7%
Social Sciences 7 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 4%
Other 12 9%
Unknown 41 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 October 2020.
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#1,650,579
of 23,007,053 outputs
Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#327
of 3,233 outputs
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#35,839
of 328,615 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#10
of 56 outputs
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