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Date of Award
1976
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
Graduate Studies
First Advisor
Martin T. Gipson
First Committee Member
Roseann Hannon
Second Committee Member
Roger C. Katz
Abstract
The present study utilized a model apartment as a transitional facility in conjunction with exposure-sampling to increase the movement of care home residents to independent living. A model apartment is oen set up with all items necessary for everyday living, including dishes, pots and pans, bedding, cleaning articles, etc., which serves as an example of what the client might live in were he to move to his own apartment. Little or no work has been done on the use of a model apartment as a transitional facility. Though the Fountain House program has apartments for their clients, they do not have a program to allow the clients to spend a finite amount of time in an apartment to adjust to independent living before making the full commitment of renting their own apartment. Exposure to and sampling of reinforcers was investigated as a means to maintain the return of clients to spend increasingly longer periods of time in the model apartment and to investigate whether the exposure to and sampling of reinforcers for living in an apartment would facilitate the clients’ movement out of the ecare homes and seeking of their own apartments.
Pages
101
Recommended Citation
Kusick, Anna L.. (1976). Increasing the movement of care home residents to independent living. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1906
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