The Reasons for Boarding Home Entry of Residents and Their Adaptation Process

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to clarify implications of professional support for the elderly from the perspectives of the elderly through a qualitative analysis. The qualitative analysis described the decision process in which the elderly who felt anxiety toward community living made decisions concerning the entry to the boarding home and the positive attitudes with which the residents lived with vitality in new environments of group living with some control for their own health. The interview method was semistructured. The number of participants was 14 residents. The qualitative analysis method is Kinoshita’s modified Grounded Theory Approach (M-GTA). As a result, 36 concepts, 8 sub-categories, and 4 categories were classified, Finally, the author conceptualized the relationships among the concepts, and categories. The analysis clarified the decision process in which the elderly made decisions concerning entry to the boarding home. The study implied that the strengths and positive decision-making of the residents were related to their adaptation process at the boarding home.