Nursing homes adopt various people who need
help. People include the elderly and younger adults with physical or mental
disabilities. Unquestionable,some people homeless or unattended but need of
care are well attended here.But there is a drawback: Lack of engagement in
activities and apathy.This greatly reduces nursing homes residents’ quality of
life.What are they interested in? A
survey on 601 nursing homes residents made a conclusion:
Lack of engagement in activities is a
common feature of nursing homes residents. As apathy is the most frequent
behavioural disturbance, understanding residents’ interests is a milestone for
tailored challenging interventions targeting engagement enhancement. Objective:
To depict the activities interests of nursing homes residents. Method: An
electronic version of the Test of Interest “TILT” which regroups 40 images of
activities has been developed and adapted for the Ipad. Residents were asked to
answer by yes or no to the question “are you interested by this activity”, for
each activity found interesting, the patient had then to categorize it in
either Work/ occupation-Personal-Leisure-Family. Population: A total of 601
residents from 19 nursing homes have completed the survey from March to May
2011. The surveyed nursing homes from the South East of France were comparable
of nursing homes figures in France. Results: We interviewed 601 individuals
(female, n = 484) aged 85.9 years, out of those, 56% had stayed more than one
year in an institution. Nearly half of the population (45.3%) was from 80 - 89
year of age, followed by 36.1% from 90 - 99. The educational background was
principally from primary school (36%) and high school (30.8%). Most of the
residents were classified has having dementia (35.3%). From the 40 activities
presented to each participant, “enjoying a good meal” has been found to be the
most interesting activity by 83% of the population followed by “dressing up”,
75.9% and “watching TV”, 75.5%. Female participants reported more interest in
place of worship, family pictures and being with grand children then males (p
< 0.01). We found that the presence of “dementia” diagnosis” triggered the
lack of interest compared to none demented or none cognitively impaired
residents (p < 0.01). It was found that participants aged 55 - 69 were more
the most interested to do video games (p < 0.05), though this may be
interpreted as a positive step toward functional and cognitive rehabilitation
program using virtual reality as a mean for intervention.
(source:scirp/ Aging Research)
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