Nursing Homes for the Birds: A Control-Relevant Intervention with Bird Feeders
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- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 23 (5) , 527-531
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/23.5.527
Abstract
As a modification of the Rodin-Langer control-relevant intervention in a nursing home, this study examined the effects of a responsibility message and the opportunity to care for individually placed bird feeders upon a sample of nursing home residents. When compared to two other groups without this intervention, the responsibility/bird feeder group showed significant pretest-posttest improvements on self-reported control, happiness, and activity and on nurses' ratings of similar variables.Keywords
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