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KMID : 0895320080170010027
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Korean Journal of Research in Gerontology
2008 Volume.17 No. 1 p.27 ~ p.48
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A Study of Daily Living Experiences among the Korean Female Single Elderly People
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Kong Eun-Suk
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The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the daily living experience of the single elderly women who lived in the Los Angeles area of the US. The phenomenological approach, especially Van Manen’s methodology was applied for analyzing the data in this study. The sample was were 5 Korean elderly women aged over 75 years. The author did participant observation of their daily lives and interviewed them in-depth with open ended and descriptive questions in order to get them talk about their lived experiences in their own terms. From the protocols, significant statements about daily living experiences were organized and grouped into 4 theme clusters. The major themes emerged from the analysis were ‘health maintaining,’ ‘self-esteem maintaining,’ ‘doing of all obligations as a human being,’ and ‘acceptance of life and death.’
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