INTRODUCTION
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Setting and Design
Selection of Participants
Data Collection Tool and Technique
Data Analysis: Creation of Categories
RESULTS
Category 1. Old Age (f=74)
“Aging: Starting to struggle with the elimination of daily necessities, encountering obstacles (Participant [P] 2).”
“Old age: For every human being, the birth process is natural, and so is old age. To accept the process of aging and behaving accordingly is the best job we can do (P 3).”
“Old age: People who go to nursing homes are generally older people who cannot help themselves in daily life (P 18).”
Category 2. Positive Affect Emotions (f=66)
“Hope: The desire for happiness and peacefulness for the rest of your life (P 2).”
“Serenity: The uniquely silent nature of the nursing home reminded me of a peaceful environment (P 5).”
“Sharing: Older people in the nursing home socialize by sharing things with each other and participating in activities that make them feel good (P 32).”
“Socialization: Older people may find the social environment they were looking for with their peers in the nursing home that they could not find in their previous homes (P 47).”
“Friendship: People in the nursing homes form a new family with their peers because of not being close to their families and the new friendships that prosper in the nursing homes (P 32).”
“The nest of love: They find love and interest in the nursing home that they could not receive from their families (P 51).”
Category 3. Negative Affect Emotions (f=165)
“Thrown away: The love/labor of each mother or father for a child. They raised their children and treated them as their most precious belongings, but the children left their parents to die just because they (the children) or their spouses do not care about their parents’ comfort (P 51).”
“Death: Nursing homes: the stop before the grave (P 16).”
“Waiting: Thinking that children and grandchildren will be visiting; one eye always on the door (P 42).”
Category 4. Loneliness (f=75)
“Loneliness: The people who are staying seem lonely, which gives the impression that they have lost their spouses and are not wanted by their children (P 14).”
“Alone: A person staying in a nursing home feels that he is not really in a peaceful home (P 26).”
“Loneliness: I think that the people there are indirectly forced into loneliness (P 35).”
Category 5. Abandonment (f=46)
“Abandonment: Our lives change when there is a change from living in a large family to living in a core family, thereby making individuals feel that they are living alone (P 22).”
“Fidelity: There is sadness in the eyes of all residents of the nursing home, reflecting the abandonment by the family and their sense of disbelief (P 30).”
“Fidelity: The relatives of the people who stay in nursing homes have died and, therefore, they have to stay in the nursing home. It is our shame (P 27).”