Promoting goodwill and countering intolerance among residents in private seniors’ residences: Need study with a view to developing a program

2021

Older adult living in private seniors’ residence (PSR)’s quality of life is influenced by many factors, such as aggressive or negative relationships between residents (Trompetter, Scholte & Westerhof, 2011) also known as bullying (Andresen, & Buchanan, 2017; Bonifas, 2016; Goodridge, Heal-Salahub, PausJenssen, James & Lidington, 2017) or mistreatment between residents (Rosen, Lachs, Teresi, Eimicke, Van Haitsma, & Pillemer, 2016; Teresi, Ramirez, Ellis, Silver, Boratgis, Kong, … Lachs, 2013). It is an issue that is documented more and more, but rather in longer term care facilities (CHSLD) than in PSR (Leboeuf, Beaulieu & Lefeuvre, 2017; McDonald, Sheppard, Hitzig, Spalter, Mathur & Mukhi, 2015) whereas more older adults live in PSR than CHSLD.

In Québec, the action plans and laws aiming to counter mistreatment or bullying towards older adults address the issue without offering any guidelines in PSR (Government of Québec, 2017-2018). However, the state of knowledge on the issue supports the importance of acting. In this regard, an increasing number of tools and guidelines for the development of intervention program to counter mistreatment or bullying towards older adults, and more specifically between older adults, but also tools to promote “living nicely together” were created in recent years. To our knowledge, no tool or intervention program were the object of a scientific validation process in PSR.

This project has the goal of developing and implementing program aiming to promote  “Living nicely together” and countering mistreatment situations between residents within private seniors’ residence.

See also: Knowledge transfer activities – Program GIFT in residence

Language: English, French

Theme: Mistreatment and good treatment, Living spaces, Interpersonal relationships