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KMID : 0922320110180010020
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Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Care Nursing
2011 Volume.18 No. 1 p.20 ~ p.31
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A Narrative Inquiry of Experience of the Elderly’s Living with Chronic Disease in Hospital-based Home Care Services
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Shin In-Ju
Lee Chung-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose:The purpose of this study is to document the experiences of elderly persons with chronic diseases who are under hospital-based home care services and to find out how they describe the experiences using a narrative inquiry method.
Methods:The participants are 7 elderly patients over the age of 70. Data collection and analysis were conducted through Jeong Gwang Soon’s six-stages: observing phenomena, selecting participants, talking, talking again, writing, and confirming.
Results: The results of data analysis were classified into 4 themes of overall experience related to chronic diseases: response to home health care, overcoming chronic disease, life reconstruction, and 22 categories as common denominators extracted from the elderly persons’ lives.
Conclusion: This research makes the experiences of the elderly living with chronic diseases more understandable, and it can be utilized as a effective nursing praxis to improve the quality of elderly persons with chronic diseases in hospital-based home care services.
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KEYWORD
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Chronic disease, Hospital-based home care services, Homes for the aged, Narrative research, Qualitative research
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