WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU: Through qualitative observations of an AL community and interviews with ten residents, those who perceived the assisted living community as a home reported more meaningful, informal relationships. When the community was perceived as an institution, residents reported impersonal, formal interactions.
A Home, an Institution and a Community – Frames of Social Relationships and Interaction in Assisted Living
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU: Through qualitative observations of an AL community and interviews with ten residents, those who perceived the assisted living community as a home reported more meaningful, informal relationships. When the community was perceived as an institution, residents reported impersonal, formal interactions.
