Visual Nursing Home

Typically, when people think about growing old, they think about spending their weekends with the grandkids, going to church on a bright and sunny Sunday morning or even going to the lake for the day and fishing. Nobody really, truly thinks about what life is like when you can no longer take care of yourself. You will make it to that point eventually in your life, but nobody should think of moving into a retirement home as a bad thing! Things change with time, including these facilities. For instance, Chia-Hsiu Chang conducted a study investigating the effect on the resident’s satisfaction when bringing a visual art-based environment into the facility. He placed pictures representing the local culture on the walls to see if the residents' had
The author gave us appropriate evidence and had a systematic investigation. She starts her article off with the purpose of the writing, then moves to how she designed the process, then talks about the methods she used, what her findings were, and the clinical relevance the article had. After that little introduction she moved to the more detailed stuff like what each theme was for floor of the facility. Next she states that she had created a scale called the “The Satisfaction with Living Environment at Nursing Home Scale (SLE-NHS)” (Chang 107) to measure the satisfaction of the nursing home environment. She then lists her results from the SLE-NHS and writes her claims and conclusion. As you can tell it was a well put together academic journal. Furthermore, one claim she states in her article is that nursing homes around the world, no matter their location or type of residents, should collaborate with the staff and directors about possibly changing the boring and drabby floral pictures, or the pictures of people walking in the park, or that cute little bakery that was painted, to something along the lines of the popular stars in the residents past years that they would remember, or that favorite musical all the residents forgot they knew and loved. People who do not spend their time in nursing home facilities do not get that what we think are simple
This article is very relatable to the last. The author, Huei-Chuan Sung, explores how willing nursing staff would be when it came to using music as a sort of reminiscing for the residents. She first asked the staff what their attitudes were towards helping the residents with dementia listen to music. She also asked what extend do they use music in the facility, and what influences the staff’s use of music for the residents with dementia. After these questions were asked 285 nurses and assistances met the requirements of working for at least three months and had taken care of residents with dementia. Sixteen long-term facilities in eastern Taiwan and 214 nursing staff completed the questionnaires. After she had gotten the approval from the research ethic review committee of a university in Taiwan and sought approval from the directors of the retirement home, they started. The sample had 191 (89%) women and 23 (11%) men. The staff ranged from nineteen years old to sixty-two. The results were that “nursing home staff in this sample held positive attitudes towards the use of music for older people with dementia” (Sung 1776). The conclusion also showed that nursing staff in these facilities need more training and equipment and that since no past studies