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)