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The Meaning of Home: A Qualitative Metasynthesis

Research in Gerontological Nursing 

By Sheila L. Molony, PhD, RN, GNP-BC


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Received: February 17, 2008; Accepted: September 8, 2009; Posted: March 31, 2010

Practice-based initiatives have emphasized the need to provide “homelike” environments in long-term care. This study adds to the discourse on the meaning of home by synthesizing several individual qualitative studies using Noblit and Hare’s method of meta-ethnography. The purpose of this larger synthesis is to bring the findings from several discrete studies into a larger interpretive perspective that will lead to ongoing theory and practice development to enable experiences of home during residential transition, thereby informing nursing praxis in creating and shaping therapeutic environments.

doi:10.3928/19404921-20100302-02