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Housen, Patricia; Shannon, George R.; Simon, Barbara; Edelen, Maria Orlando; Cadogan, Mary P.; Sohn, Linda; Jones, Malia; Buchanan, Joan L.; Saliba, Debra – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: Emphasis on consumer-centered care for frail and institutionalized older adults has increased the development and adaptation of surveys for this population. Conventional methods used to pretest survey items fail to investigate underlying sources of measurement error. However, the use of the cognitive interview (CI), a method for studying…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Health Facilities, Questionnaires, Cognitive Processes
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Zimmerman, Sheryl; Sloane, Philip D. – Gerontologist, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to discuss the benefits and limitations of, and considerations in, developing a typology of assisted living (AL). Design and Methods: We conducted a review and comparison of nine AL typologies drawn from the literature. Results: Typologies addressed matters related to the structure, process, population, and…
Descriptors: Classification, Sampling, Older Adults, Comparative Analysis
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Ryan, David Patrick; And Others – Gerontologist, 1988
Nurses in long-term care facilities indicated that about 30 percent of residents presented noise-making behavior. From descriptions, typology of noise-making was identified: purposeless and perseverative noise-making, noise-making in response to environment, noise-making to elicit response from environment, "chatterbox" noise-making,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Classification, Foreign Countries