Journal of Aging Science

Saeed Haghnia

Publications

• Review Article
  Iranian Older Peoples Emotional Well-being in Long-term Care
  Author(s): Saeed HaghniaSaeed Haghnia
  
  This paper investigates elderly people’s emotional well-being in long-term care environments. It is to explore how architecture influences their well-being in a place. While the literature on elderly people’s well-being in a place is growing, moving to long-term care environments still maintains as a challenge for majority of older people. This unwanted relocation in old age might cause psychological issues for older people. In order to have more spirituality as a key factor of emotional well-being, older people need to have a successful aging, but how do they age successfully? There are different approaches to successful aging, but this paper will mainly focus on Erikson’s psychosocial development model and Tornstam’s theory of gerotranscendence, as two of the main approaches to this issue. The population of Iran is getting old because of improvements in healt.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2329-8847.1000185

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