eprintid: 3264
rev_number: 5
eprint_status: archive
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dir: disk0/00/00/32/64
datestamp: 2020-08-04 08:17:24
lastmod: 2020-08-04 08:17:24
status_changed: 2020-08-04 08:17:24
type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Oudman, Klarieke
creators_id: S3495132
creators_email: k.w.oudman@student.rug.nl
title: The wellbeing of elderly people living in retirement homes in the Netherlands
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: The Netherlands is facing an increasingly ageing population, as is the case with most other European countries. This study investigates the impact of several factors on the wellbeing of elderly people living in retirement homes in the Netherlands. The main research question is as follows: To what extent is the wellbeing of elderly people living in retirement homes in the Netherlands influenced by the residential situation and which determinants have an additional impact? The variables that are studied have been divided in three categories: 1) personal characteristics, 2) cause and experience of the movement, and 3) residential situation.
Quantitative research has been conducted, based on a secondary dataset from The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, called ‘Ouderen in Instellingen 2008’. Variables were selected with careful considerations, ensuring that a good selection was made in accordance with the theoretical framework and chosen statistical test, an ordinal logistic regression. 
The results illustrate the importance of physical wellbeing, satisfaction with retirement home, feeling at home and frequency of visiting church or mosque on wellbeing. Each variable is positively related to wellbeing, meaning that an increase in satisfaction, in assessed health, church or mosque attendance will increase wellbeing among elderly people. These findings were also expected on the basis of several theories that have been discussed in the literature study (Meléndez et al., 2009; Gröndstedt et al., 2011; Lowis et al., 2005; Idler et al., 2009; Ellison et al., 2001; Kirby et al., 2004; Andersson et al., 2007; Falk et al., 2012; Prieto-Flores et al., 2011; Veer & Kerkstra, 2001; Hoof et al., 2016; Cooney, 2012). Being aware of the influence from these variables can be useful to interpret, and hopefully impact, happiness among elderly people in their last years of life. This thesis supports the positive influence of assessed health, church or mosque attendance, feeling at home and satisfaction with retirement home on the wellbeing of elderly people living in retirement homes in the Netherlands.
date: 2020
pages: 43
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: SGP
tutors_name: Ballas, D.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Economische Geografie
tutors_email: D.Ballas@rug.nl
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keywords_local: wellbeing
keywords_local: elderly people
keywords_local: residential satisfaction
keywords_local: retirement home
keywords_local: Ouderen in Instellingen
keywords_local: quantitative research
keywords_local: ordinal logistic regression
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2020-07-27
citation:   Oudman, Klarieke  (2020) The wellbeing of elderly people living in retirement homes in the Netherlands.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3264/1/BachelorThesis_KlariekeOudman.pdf