The Impact of Visitation on Patient Well-Being in Nursing Homes

摘要: A substantial body of research documents the importance and pervasiveness supportive contact by family members with frail elderly persons. For living in community, primary sources care, often instrumental avoiding institutionalization, are friends (Brody et al., 1978; Cantor, 1977; Community Council, Shanas, 1979). It has likewise been documented that persons not abandoned upon institutional entry but typically maintain extensive contacts, mainly via visitation (York & Calsyn, 1977). This latter finding particular interest since it helped to dispel myth "dumped" into nursing homes their families (Shanas, Indeed, some evidence suggests quality interpersonal relationships between institutionalized person sometimes improved, rather than attenuated or destroyed, as a result institutionalization (Smith Bengtson, Although is generally assumed maintenance contacts impaired residents homes, particularly through visitation, important patient well-being, our knowledge no systematic empirical bearing directly on this question reported literature. In related studies, however, Harel (1981) found patients who attribute greater continuity social tend have better morale Gottesman (1974) visited more frequently appear receive attention from staff. Furthermore, factors influence propensity