Older Adults' Experience of Health Promotion: A Theory for Nursing Practice

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

7 p.

Publication Date

2-1996

Publisher

Wiley

Source Publication

Public Health Nursing

Source ISSN

0737-1209

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1996.tb00220.x

Abstract

Understanding older adults' experience of health promotion is essential in effectively preserving health and functional ability and thereby reducing health care costs among members of this rapidly expanding group. During 5 months of participant observation of 80 older adults (ages of 62-88), data from 31 semistructured interviews, as well as the Health Self-Determinism Index (HSDI) designed to measure intrinsic motivation for health (Cox, Miller, & Mull, 1987), were analyzed using methods common to grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Patterns central to maintaining health that provide essential theoretical grounding for health promotion practice with older adults were discovered.

Comments

Public Health Nursing, Vol. 13, No. 1 (February, 1996): 65-71. DOI: DOI.

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