Psychological Reasons of Minangkabau Elderly to Stay in Nursing Home (Case Study at Sabai Nan Aluih Nursing Home)
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsr.k.200215.041How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- psychological reason, elderly, Minangkabau, nursing home
- Abstract
The presence of nursing homes in the Minangkabau community affects the psychological reasons for elderly living in nursing homes. This qualitative research is to uncover the reasons of the elderly to decide for living in a nursing home. From the results of the study it was found that elderly women settled in nursing homes on the grounds of not having a family, not having daughter, not respectful sons-in-law, afraid of offending children and son in-laws as well as being a burden to them. Meanwhile, elderly men choose to stay in nursing homes because their wives had been died as they feel uncomfortable anymore living in the wife’s family environment, do not have sibling daughter as feel they have no right to live in the Rumah Gadang and the position as Ninik Mamak did not exist anymore. It can be concluded that elderly Minangkabau who decide to live in a nursing home have negative psychological reasons for living in their family environment.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yulianita AU - Amrizal Arief PY - 2020 DA - 2020/02/22 TI - Psychological Reasons of Minangkabau Elderly to Stay in Nursing Home (Case Study at Sabai Nan Aluih Nursing Home) BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Health Research (ISHR 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 218 EP - 221 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200215.041 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200215.041 ID - 2020 ER -