Nurses and emotional experiences of older people living in a nursing home

Starost je normalni dio života koji ne zadrživo dolazi nakon perioda u kojem dominira rast i razvoj. Nastupaju procesi razgradnje, počinje starost. Problemi starenja mogu se analizirati sa više aspekata, u gerontosociopsihologiji istražuje se emocionalnost starijih osoba. Demografsko starenje ili promjene u dobnoj strukturi stanovništva, očituje se smanjenim brojem mladih i povećanjem broja starih u populaciji. Dobna struktura hrvatskog pučanstva mijenja se iz godine u godinu, svakim danom hrvatsko stanovništvo je sve starije i starije. Cilj i problemi istraživanja su: upoznati, analizirati i prikazati emocionalne probleme starijih osoba koje žive u domu umirovljenika, prikazati zastupljenost pojedinih emocija u njihovom emotivnom životu, pronaći eventualne mogućnosti za rješavanje emocionalnih problema starih osoba. Za analizu emocionalnih problema starih ljudi anketirano je 100 ispitanika, korisnika doma za starije i nemoćne osobe. Druga skupina čini profesionalno osoblje (N=50) koje radi u domu te je generacijski znatno mlađe. Instrumenti koji su korišteni u istraživanju su Kratko ispitivanje mentalnog statusa – MMSE2 (Marshal F.Folstein, Susan E.Folstein, TravisWhite, MElissa A.Messer, ur.hrv.izdanja prof.dr.sc.Vlado Jukić) i upitnik (autor upitnika Marijana Puljić uz konzultaciju prof. Volge Škvorinić – klinička psihologinja i dr. Borne Josipa Godana – specijalist psihijatrije). Od ukupno 100 (N=100) ispitanika korisnika doma većina je u dobi između 80 i 90 godina (65%). Prosječno trajanje boravka ispitanika (N=100) u domu umirovljenika je 4 godine, dakle to su dobro adaptirane osobe na uvjete života u domu umirovljenika. Psihičko stanje korisnika doma prema procjeni medicinskog osoblja je vrlo dobro jer 80% ispitanika pokazuje vrlo stabilno psihičko stanje. Subjektivna ocjena kvalitete života ispitanika prema zadovoljstvu sa sadašnjim životom također je zadovoljavajuća. Od 100 ispitanika (78%) dalo je odgovor da su prilično zadovoljni sa sadašnjim životom.Getting old or aging is one of the natural part of life that is coming after the period where growing up and development are more dominated. In this period, the processes of the development are stopping and starting to regress, this is very popular as „getting old“term in everyday life. Problems of aging people can be analysed over more aspects, but in geronto sociopsychology the emotional state of the old persons is the principal object of study. Demographic age of population or changes in the age structure of citizenships are represented by decreasing number of young people and increasing number of old people in the global population. Age structure of Croatian citizenships is changing from year to year, and every day Croatians people is increasingly getting older. The objective and problems of this research are : recognize, analyse and show emotional problems of old persons living in the nursing home, to show the presence of some special emotions in their emotional life, to find out eventual possibilities for resolving of their emotional problems. For analyse of emotional problems of old persons, the survey was done on sample of 100 analysed persons, that are all living in the nursing home. Other section of analysed persons is professional medical persons (N=50) that are working in the nursing home and that are much younger. Instruments that were used in this research are Short survey of mental status (Marshal F.Folstein, Susan E.Folstein, TravisWhite, MElissa A.Messer, in croatian edition prof.dr.sc.Vlado Jukić) and survey (author of survey Marijana Puljić with consultation of prof. Volge Škvorinić – clinical psychologist and dr. Borna Josipa Godana – psychiatric specialist). From totally 100 analysed persons (N=100) in the nursing home, most of them are in the age inbetween 80 and 90 years (65%). Average of their staying (N=100) in the nursing home is 4 years, so the conclusion is that those are very good adapted old persons to the conditions in the nursing home. Psychical state of persons living in nursing home, according to the analyse of medical personnel, is very good, as 80% of analysed old persons are showing very stable psychical state. Subjective analyse of life quality of those samples of analysed peoples comparing the satisfaction with their actual life is also satisfying. From 100 analysed people (78%) of them gave answer that they are quite satisfied with their lives today