Nursing Home Interview Paper
Nursing Homes from the Resident 's Point of View
Introduction
In this interview project, I chose to interview a nursing home resident. She is an old lady who experiences short-term memory loss and is aware of her current mental condition. She has many loved ones who are close to her, and despite not knowing each of their names, she seems to be happy knowing that she as a lot of loved ones, especially her loving daughter. She loves to share stories of her life, and I was delighted to conduct the interview with her, not only for the project 's sake, but as a friend who loves to have long conversations with her. “How are you doing?”
This was my first question to the nursing home resident because I believe that this will make her at ease and open up with me. I wanted to know what she …show more content…
She said, "THIS is my life now" implying that she came to accept the reality of living in a nursing home, although this was not what she thought her life would be during the earlier years of her life. She also said she didn 't want to die in the nursing home, but she thought she had no choice, and that her death in the nursing home was an inevitable thing, just like how other residents died in the nursing home.
Developmental Stage: Psychosocial Theory of Development: Integrity versus Despair
In her answer, it is confirmed that the resident was in the midst of integrity and despair of her psychosocial crisis, in the sense that she kept integrity when she said she was happy as she could be; but she hinted sadness when she talked about her dead husband and relating it to her current life. In the end, she has learned to accept the reality of her life.
Diversity:
Being in "Intimacy vs. Isolation" crisis, I felt that I would not want to live alone in my elderly years, away from my family, in contrast to my friend in the nursing
Introduction
In this interview project, I chose to interview a nursing home resident. She is an old lady who experiences short-term memory loss and is aware of her current mental condition. She has many loved ones who are close to her, and despite not knowing each of their names, she seems to be happy knowing that she as a lot of loved ones, especially her loving daughter. She loves to share stories of her life, and I was delighted to conduct the interview with her, not only for the project 's sake, but as a friend who loves to have long conversations with her. “How are you doing?”
This was my first question to the nursing home resident because I believe that this will make her at ease and open up with me. I wanted to know what she …show more content…
She said, "THIS is my life now" implying that she came to accept the reality of living in a nursing home, although this was not what she thought her life would be during the earlier years of her life. She also said she didn 't want to die in the nursing home, but she thought she had no choice, and that her death in the nursing home was an inevitable thing, just like how other residents died in the nursing home.
Developmental Stage: Psychosocial Theory of Development: Integrity versus Despair
In her answer, it is confirmed that the resident was in the midst of integrity and despair of her psychosocial crisis, in the sense that she kept integrity when she said she was happy as she could be; but she hinted sadness when she talked about her dead husband and relating it to her current life. In the end, she has learned to accept the reality of her life.
Diversity:
Being in "Intimacy vs. Isolation" crisis, I felt that I would not want to live alone in my elderly years, away from my family, in contrast to my friend in the nursing