因應人口老化的趨勢,除了生理的照護外,如何促進老年心理與社會健康亦為一個重要的課題,根據艾瑞克森心理社會發展理論指出老年期若沒有達到生命統合,會產生絕望感,而藉由人生回顧及懷舊活動,可達到老年統合、提升信心、自我滿意和實現等目標。本研究目的即探索老年婦女人生回顧和懷舊活動的個案研究。本研究屬質性個案研究,立意取樣眷村文化發展協會中三位代表性的老年婦女,並由研究者訓練二位老師各代領一位護生,進行三位老年婦女人生回顧的訪談,針對訪談逐字稿進行內容分析,並發現分類主題,再依照分類主題進行懷舊活動。本研究結果呈現三位代表性的老年婦女人生回顧與懷舊活動的內容,能夠提供老人長照工作者未來促進老年心理與社會健康之參考。
Except for the physical care, the important theme also includes improving the psychological and social health of the elders for adaption of aging trend. According to the Erickson’s psychological and social developing theory, if the elders do not achieve life integration, they might have the feelings of despair. However, the elders could approach the goals of integration, promoting confidence, self-satisfaction and achievement through life-review and reminiscence. The purpose of this study was to explore the case study of life-review and reminiscence activities for the elderly women. This study was the qualitative case study with purposive sampling of thee representative elderly women in a Military Village Cultural Development Association. The investigator trained two teachers to lead the nursing student for conducting the life-review interviews of three elderly women and the content analysis of the interview transcripts to identify the categories of themes for the reminiscence activities. The study results presented the content of life-review and reminiscence activities for three elderly women, which could provide as the reference of future improving the psychological and social health of the elders for the elderly long-term care workers.