Safety practices of older adults in residential environments

dc.contributor.authorTomlinson, Karen A.en
dc.contributor.departmentHousing, Interior Design, and Resource Managementen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:34:31Zen
dc.date.adate2009-04-25en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:34:31Zen
dc.date.issued1990en
dc.date.rdate2009-04-25en
dc.date.sdate2009-04-25en
dc.description.abstractThe major objectives of this study were to identify critical safety hazards, safety precautions practiced by older adults, and the factors that would assist older adults in preventing accidents in their residential environment and to examine the relationship between these safety practices and selected demographic characteristics of older adults. A personal interview schedule was developed and administered to a random sample of 50 members of the Virginia Cooperative Extension Homemaker's Council, over age 70, in Giles, Montgomery, and Pulaski Counties and the city of Radford. Means, frequencies, and correlations were used to examine the data. The findings revealed that older adults evaluate their home as moderately or extremely safe and they perceive that it is not likely to somewhat likely that hazards exist in their home that could cause an accident. Older adults currently practice an average of 15 out of a possible 20 safety precautions in their home. They are most likely to seek assistance in preventing accidents in their home from family members in the form of routine cleaning. If given the money and assistance to make improvements in the safety of their home, older adults would be interested in installing a secure grab bar in the bathtub or shower, painting or taping the edge of steps in order to see them better, attaching handrails on the stairway, and installing a telephone close to the bed. No significant relationship was found between the older adult's safety hazard perception score, safety precaution score, or factors that would assist older adults in preventing accidents in their residential environment and their health status, accident history, income, or mastery level.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extentx, 87 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-04252009-040802en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04252009-040802/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/42230en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1990.T655.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 22883288en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1990.T655en
dc.subject.lcshHome accidents -- Preventionen
dc.subject.lcshOlder people -- Dwellings -- Safety measuresen
dc.titleSafety practices of older adults in residential environmentsen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineHousing, Interior Design, and Resource Managementen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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