Spiritual well‑being promotion for older adults: Implication for healthcare policy makers’ decision making on cost savings
نویسندگان
1 Center for Econometric Optimization in the Nursing Workforce, Seoul, Korea
2 Patient Safety Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
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چکیده
A spiritual well‑being‑based nursing intervention may boost older adults’ resilience‑based recovery. Itspotential contribution may have positive knock‑on effects: controlling skyrocketing healthcare costs;reducing the productive population’s social burden of supporting the older adults; and alleviating agenerational conflict. However, healthcare policy‑makers are still skeptical about investing in thosehealthcare resources which would develop and implement a spiritual well‑being‑based nursingintervention for older adults. It is time for nurse scientists, as front‑line gatekeepers for patients’omnidirectional well‑being, to escape from thinking within the box by actively addressing first thefeasibility, then the direct and indirect effectiveness on actual patient outcomes, and finally the costefficiency of a spiritual well‑being‑based nursing intervention for the added benefit of easing thedecision‑making of healthcare policy‑makers.
