A qualitative descriptive exploratory study of what is the meaning of quality of life for older adults

Quality of life is a universal living experience and is significant for older adults living in long-term residential care facilities. The purposes of this research study were to: explicate the experience of quality of life for older adults, contribute to the understanding of quality of life for older adults, and to nursing's extant body of knowledge by enhancing the theory of humanbecoming (Parse, 2007). The humanbecoming school of thought was selected as the theoretical perspective for the qualitative descriptive exploratory method study with 10 volunteers living in the same long-term residential care facility. Through the processes of the qualitative descriptive method guided by Parse's humanbecoming theory, older adults' experiences of quality of life as lived and described by participants were explicated. The findings of this study, the answer to the research question was: quality of life is fortifying tranquillity amid potential turbulence with the gratifying engagements of diverse affiliations, as envisioning possibilities arise with discordant constraints. The findings of this study have made a significant contribution to the phenomenon - quality of life both in terms of older adults living in nursing homes and from a Singaporean context.