Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
A nursing home population in Lake Worth, Florida was studied in
terms of a biocultural model utilizing demographic, biological,
environmental, and cultural variables. The aim of this research was
to discuss ways by which the geriatric patient is biologically and
culturally adapting as well as interacting with his/her environment.
This aim was best achieved by a study of past and present disease
incidence exhibited by patients in the nursing home sub-culture.
Blood samples were drawn and typed to test for possible
relationships between blood groups and disease. Some types of mental
disorders were associated with the patient as an end process of
adaptation to the organizational and institutional pressures of the
nursing home environment. In this paper, possibilities for further
research are suggested which could contribute to an improvement in
quality of physical and mental health among geriatric patients in the
nursing home sub-culture.
terms of a biocultural model utilizing demographic, biological,
environmental, and cultural variables. The aim of this research was
to discuss ways by which the geriatric patient is biologically and
culturally adapting as well as interacting with his/her environment.
This aim was best achieved by a study of past and present disease
incidence exhibited by patients in the nursing home sub-culture.
Blood samples were drawn and typed to test for possible
relationships between blood groups and disease. Some types of mental
disorders were associated with the patient as an end process of
adaptation to the organizational and institutional pressures of the
nursing home environment. In this paper, possibilities for further
research are suggested which could contribute to an improvement in
quality of physical and mental health among geriatric patients in the
nursing home sub-culture.
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