Choosing Privacy over Interaction: Restructuring Expectations and Interpretations of Community Integration in Canadian Small-House Long-Term Care Settings
- 3 July 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Housing For the Elderly
- Vol. 29 (3), 209-232
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02763893.2015.1055023
Abstract
In Nova Scotia, Canada, the small-house model of care has been introduced as an alternative to institutional care settings, and the province has funded and built 11 new long-term care (LTC) communities in the small-house model. Each of the new facilities was built with multiple cottages housing 12 to 15 residents; each cottage features private bedrooms and a residentially scaled kitchen and dining area. Through smaller numbers of residents living in home areas, the goal of the Provincial Department of Health was to encourage relationship building, as well as to provide opportunities for autonomy and choice in resident daily living. A qualitative case study was conducted in one of these small-house communities, focusing on the model's impact on resident interaction and community integration. Thematic analysis revealed that while resident social patterns were directly impacted by the physical environment and culture of care in the new model, interpretations of these patterns by staff and family members were influenced by preexisting expectations of community integration rooted in institutional care models of the past.Keywords
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