Experiences of younger adults with neurological conditions living in nursing homes
Whoo
p! Kerry Thornton and I have just published a new paper about the experiences of working-aged adults living in institutional residential care settings intended for much older people. This qualitative metasynthesis arose from some work that Kerry did with me as a mini-research project towards her MHealSc(Rehabilitation). This review was challenging to conduct because of the paucity of research in this area of study, and because of the diversity of social, economic and organisational contexts of institutional living arrangements worldwide. We used ‘sensitivity analysis’ to endeavor to be as inclusive as possible with the data that we incorporated into the qualitative metasynthesis, while concurrently avoiding placing too much weight on less directly relevant or poorly conducted studies. The full paper is available from the British Journal of Occupational Therapy website, where it is currently listed as an ‘early online’ publication: click here to link to the paper itself. The paper is a pay-per-view publication – so email me if you can’t access a copy of it but would like to know more.