Dzīves kvalitāte un tās saistība ar stresoriem pansionāta iedzīvotājiem Latvijā

Translated title of the contribution: Quality of Life and its Relation to Stressors Elderly Nursing Home Rezidents in Latvia

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Abstract

There is a lot of talk about global aging in society and, as people start to live longer, the society has to take care about their well- being in old age too. There are developed a series of definitions about life quality and designed a variety of methods for assessing quality of life of different groups of people and society as a whole over the time. At such a group of people belongs also those who lives in a nursing home and for various reasons they are aging in one of the nursing homes in Latvia. A study has been made to examine the correlation between
stressors and quality of life of nursing home residents. The study objective was quantification method - survey, using two research instruments - questionnaires and 134 nursing home residents were interviewed. The results show that there are both positive and negative relationship between stressors and indicator of quality of life. Overall, the results after the quality of life index characterize the situation as good, the figure is described as an adequate quality of life for the majority of respondents, but for a part of respondents in several, important
areas of life there is needed an improvement.
Translated title of the contributionQuality of Life and its Relation to Stressors Elderly Nursing Home Rezidents in Latvia
Original languageLatvian
Title of host publicationSabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība = Society. Integration. Education
Subtitle of host publicationstarptautiskās zinātniskās konferences materiāli = proceedings of the international scientific conference
EditorsVelta Lubkina, Kristīne Šneidere, Svetlana Ušča
Place of PublicationRēzekne
PublisherRēzeknes Tehnoloģiju akadēmija
Pages15-23
Volume7: Psiholoģija
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
EventInternational Scientific Conference “Society. Integration. Education: Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība”, 2018 - Rēzekne, Latvia
Duration: 25 May 201826 May 2018

Publication series

NameSociety. Integration. Education=Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība
ISSN (Print)1691-5887
ISSN (Electronic)2256-0629

Conference

ConferenceInternational Scientific Conference “Society. Integration. Education: Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība”, 2018
Country/TerritoryLatvia
CityRēzekne
Period25/05/1826/05/18

Keywords*

  • quality of life
  • residents of nursing homes
  • stressors

Field of Science*

  • 3.3 Health sciences

Publication Type*

  • 3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database

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