Improving Quality of Life for Long-Term Care Residents

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Nursing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 356

Special Issue Editor

School of Nursing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Interests: aging and long-term care; quality of life; quality of care; prevention and management of chronic conditions; injury and fall

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Quality of life matters most to residents in long-term care settings. Most residents live in long-term care settings for a long period of time and want to live as normal, meaningful, and unconstrained a life as possible. Quality of life is generally perceived as a multidimensional construct and represents subjective and objective aspects of quality. Residents’ perspectives are crucial for understanding their experiences with daily life and their satisfaction with staff, facility, and services. Quality of life could also be used in practice for quality improvement, public reporting, regulation, and value-based reimbursement.

This Special Issue of Healthcare seeks original research, reviews, short reports, and commentaries on improving the quality of life in long-term care settings across a variety of national contexts and with representation across diverse populations. Our goal is to provide a body of work that can offer a deeper understanding of quality-of-life improvement and support recommendations for researchers, policymakers, as well as residents and their family members.

Dr. Dongjuan Xu
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • quality of life
  • wellbeing
  • life satisfaction
  • mental health
  • sleep
  • coping
  • resilience
  • social support
  • long-term care
  • nursing home
  • nursing facility
  • assisted living
  • older adults

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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