KMID : 0607720050160020157
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Journal of Korean Community Nursing 2005 Volume.16 No. 2 p.157 ~ p.166
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A Study on Health as Expanding Consciousness of the Low-income Elderly Living Alone
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Shim Moon-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was to explore health experiences of the low-income elderly living alone reflected in Newman¡¯¡¯s Health as expanding consciousness theory.
Method: The researcher used Newman¡¯¡¯s praxis methodology because it is good for showing the process of interaction between the researcher and the low-income elderly living alone.
Results: The significant characteristics of early health experience during a participant¡¯¡¯s lifetime were demonstrated that blamed themselves, being burden of themselves hopeless of their lives. However, after a turning point in health experience. The health experience of most of the participants evolved as expanding consciousness.
Conclusion: This study has provided support for Newman¡¯¡¯s theory of health. Most of the participants recognized meanings in their patterns and authentic caring relationships with the nurse as researcher, pattern recognition as a nursing practice was a meaningful transforming process in the participant-nurse partnership. This participatory approach expands the scope of sharing health experience with the elderly living alone and with caring community people.
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KEYWORD
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Newman¡¯s praxis methodology, Elderly, Health as expanding consciousness
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