Spiritual well‑being promotion for older adults: Implication for healthcare policy makers’ decision making on cost savings

A spiritual well‑being‑based nursing intervention may boost older adults’ resilience‑based recovery. Its potential 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 a generational conflict. However, healthcare policy‑makers are still skeptical about investing in those healthcare resources which would develop and implement a spiritual well‑being‑based nursing intervention 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 the feasibility, then the direct and indirect effectiveness on actual patient outcomes, and finally the cost efficiency of a spiritual well‑being‑based nursing intervention for the added benefit of easing the decision‑making of healthcare policy‑makers.