The narrative of the elderly about the factors involved in continuing their life in the nursing home Case study: Kehrizak nursing home, Tehran province

Transferring to elderly service centers is one of the most difficult experiences for the elderly. This experience can be effective in creating a sense of depression and loss of social support in them. In this research, the aim is to examine the factors affecting the elderly living in the nursing home from the perspective and narrative of the elderly.

For this purpose, with the qualitative method and conducting interviews and using the LHC (life history calendar) technique, milestones were extracted in which people are affected during their life from childhood to old age, and factors which was important regarding living in nursing homes, was taken into consideration. Tehran's Kahrizak Nursing Home was chosen due to the large number of elderly people with different characteristics (people who are able to speak and do not suffer from dementia) were selected, and 6 men and 6 women who were willing to participate were interviewed.

Important time milestones were extracted from the interviews: the time of parents' death, spouse's death, illness and accident, and children's marriage time, the birth of grandchildren and the growing up of grandchildren and research areas were determined in the form of economic, social and cultural issues.

In economic issues, areas such as homelessness, loss of inheritance, living space and residential homes of children, high costs of maintenance and treatment were identified, and under social issues, the desire to have privacy, polygamy and the presence of a stepmother, celibacy and childlessness. (celibacy) and children's differences, and under cultural issues, areas such as generation gap, valuing youth and weakening of religious beliefs were raised.