Health profile of individuals fifty five aged and over thoughts about nursing homes

This study was state of to determine the health profiles of the individuals aged 55 and over and thoughts regarding living in a nursing home. This study is happened between 1 March 2018-30 April 2018 and was made descriptive with 218 participants living in Düztepe Neighborhood Şahinbey District Gaziantep Province. Necessary permissions were obtained before starting to study. Survey form, The Nottingham Health Profile and Short Form 36 Questionnaire of Evaluating Life Quality are used for in collecting data. For descriptive statistics in the evaluation of the data obtained are Kolmogorov Smirnov, One Way Anova, Student T, Kruskal Wallis and Mann Whitney U tests were used. Detection: It was determined that average age of the participants 66.17, 51.4% woman, 30.7% educated, 87.3% married, 39.4% housewifes, 89.4% has social guarantees, 56.9% not working, 38.5% lived with their spouses. It was found that 72% of individuals do not want to live in a nursing home, but 99.1% could stay if the nursing home's name is changed as a rehabilitation or living center. It was determined that 80,8% of the participants thought that the people living in nursing homes were assisted in daily life activities. Short Form 36 scale all sub-dimension mean scores was determined that higher than others of those living with their spouse and children, men, who do not use medicine, of those without chronic disease and The Nottingham Health Profile mean scores was determined that the difference in the distribution of according to the people they live with was significant. Most of the individuals included in the study do not want to stay in a nursing home and it was determined that people are affecting the people they live with according to Short Form 36 scale all sub-dimension mean scores and The Nottingham Health Profile mean scores. In accordance with these results, it may be recommended to give information about nursing homes to people in this age group. Key words: Health profile, aged 55 and over, nursing homes, nursing