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The quality of life of homeless older persons in Housing First facilities in the City of Tshwane : best practices for interdisciplinary teams
Dissertation (MSW (Research))--University of Pretoria, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/102731 The quality of life of homeless older persons in Housing First facilities in the City of Tshwane : best practices for interdisciplinary teams Geyer, Stephan u18165542@tuks.co.za Mgwedli, Merriam UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Homelessness Older persons Interdisciplinary teams (IDT) Quality of life Housing First facilities City of Tshwane Gerentological services Dissertation (MSW (Research))--University of Pretoria, 2025. Increasing homelessness among older persons (from 50 years upward) is a global problem. Scrutiny revealed a lacuna pertaining to the quality of life among homeless older persons in Housing First facilities. To fill the identified gap, this study followed the biopsychosocial perspective and adopted a mixed methods research approach to determine the quality of life of homeless older persons in Housing First facilities in the City of Tshwane. Following a non-probability sampling procedure, quantitative data was collected through face-to-face surveys of homeless older persons (n=38) using the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire, which measures and assesses the respondents’ perceived quality of life across the domains of physical health, psychological well-being, social relationships, and their environment on a 5-point Likert scale. Quantitative data analysis focused on descriptive and inferential statistics. Furthermore, qualitative data was gathered to explore and describe how interdisciplinary teams (n=5) could promote the quality of life of homeless older persons through face-to-face semi-structured interviews. The reflexive thematic analysis process was followed for qualitative data analysis. For quality of life, the domain of psychological well-being (M=3.77) measured the highest; followed by physical health (M=3.64); the environment (M=3.32); and social relationships (M=3.22); indicating, in totality, a perception of a moderate quality of life. Moreover, participants perceived their quality of life (M=3.26) as neither poor nor good, and they were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with their health (M=3.55). Qualitative findings complemented these results, suggesting that the quality of life of homeless older persons requires improvement in the domains of biological well-being (through better nutrition, medical care, and hygiene); improved psychological well-being (through emotional and psychological support); and improved social well-being (through higher family support, socialisation, financial functioning and spiritual well-being). The mixed methods results were used to delineate best-practice guidelines to formulate service delivery guidelines that will promote the biopsychosocial well-being of homeless older persons in Housing First facilities, resulting in improved quality of life. National Research Foundation (NRF), Grant Number: PMDS230612116069 Social Work and Criminology MSW (Research) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities SDG-03: Good health and well-being 2025-06-09T10:42:35Z 2025-06-09T10:42:35Z 2025-09 2025-04 Dissertation * S2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/102731 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.29267126.v1 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.29267126 en © 2024 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Homelessness Older persons Interdisciplinary teams (IDT) Quality of life Housing First facilities City of Tshwane Gerentological services The quality of life of homeless older persons in Housing First facilities in the City of Tshwane : best practices for interdisciplinary teams |
| title | The quality of life of homeless older persons in Housing First facilities in the City of Tshwane : best practices for interdisciplinary teams |
| title_full | The quality of life of homeless older persons in Housing First facilities in the City of Tshwane : best practices for interdisciplinary teams |
| title_fullStr | The quality of life of homeless older persons in Housing First facilities in the City of Tshwane : best practices for interdisciplinary teams |
| title_full_unstemmed | The quality of life of homeless older persons in Housing First facilities in the City of Tshwane : best practices for interdisciplinary teams |
| title_short | The quality of life of homeless older persons in Housing First facilities in the City of Tshwane : best practices for interdisciplinary teams |
| title_sort | quality of life of homeless older persons in housing first facilities in the city of tshwane best practices for interdisciplinary teams |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Homelessness Older persons Interdisciplinary teams (IDT) Quality of life Housing First facilities City of Tshwane Gerentological services |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/102731 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.29267126 |