Quality of Life and Person-Centered Care for Older People

Thomas Boggatz was born in 1962 in Germany and finished his training as a male nurse in 1992. He studied Nursing Education at the Institute of Health and Nursing Science at the Charité, Berlin, Germany, from where he graduated in 2003 as a nurse educator. From 2005 to 2008, he worked in Egypt to establish a training centre for geriatric care and a home care service in Greater Cairo. In 2010, he received a doctorate in Nursing Science from the Charité, Berlin, Germany, for a thesis about care dependency and care seeking attitudes among older people in Egypt. He has been teaching nursing science at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg, Austria and is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of Nursing Science at the Philosophical-Theological University Vallendar. He conducted research about quality of life in care settings for older persons and has published a number or research articles, particularly on the topic of geriatric nursing care and quality of life.

Introduction.- Quality of life in old age. Theoretical Perspective.- Quality of Life: The perspective of community-dwelling older adults.- Health promotion and quality of life in old age.- Quality of Life in Long-term Care Facilities.- Quality of Life in the Process of Dying.- Person-centred care and quality of Life.

"The book offers the already existing findings summarized as metasyntheses in order to derive a model of quality of life from the perspective of older persons. From this model, caregivers, nurses, and other health professionals can derive recommendations on how to approach older persons in a person-centered way in order to promote their quality of life." (Nunziata Comoretto, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 43, 2022)

“The book offers the already existing findings summarized as metasyntheses in order to derive a model of quality of life from the perspective of older persons. From this model, caregivers, nurses, and other health professionals can derive recommendations on how to approach older persons in a person-centered way in order to promote their quality of life.” (Nunziata Comoretto, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 43, 2022)