Expecting Relocation to a Nursing Home: Longitudinal Links with Functional Limitations, Self-Rated Health, and Life Satisfaction.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Developing realistic expectations of future old age constitutes an adaptational process which facilitates the anticipation of and adjustment to challenges, such as relocation to a nursing home. Developing such expectations might minimize the negative impacts of relocation. This pre-registered study examined (1) to which extent lower levels and declines in health (i.e., functional limitations and self-rated health) and life satisfaction before relocation were associated with higher levels and increases in expectations to relocate and (2) to which extent higher expectations to relocate were associated with more positive changes in health and life satisfaction after relocation.

Methods

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS; 2006-2018), we selected ol

SUBMITTER: Verspeek EAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11548893 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature