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KMID : 1022119990020010206
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Health and Welfare
1999 Volume.2 No. 1 p.206 ~ p.230
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A Study on the Elderly’s Attitude for Death
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Ko Seung-Duk
Kim Jong-Chun
Kim Eun-Joo
Kim Young-Kyu
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Abstract
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This study attempt to analyze on the Elderly’s attitude for death and to present some basic data for the death-preliminary education. The data ware collected by administerial the questionnaire interview with 169 the elderly who was 200 the elderly over 60 year old in tree silver colleges. The questions was consists the awareness recognition of death, character, attitudes toward for death the charactery. The statistical methods used for the analysis were x²-test analysis. The results ware the follows. There was no statistically significant relations between the fear of death and the general characteristics the elderly. but the old women felt more anxiety than old men. Especially, more aged, unhealthy the elderly felt it more and the lower educated or the single felt it more severely. The change in the attitude for death: They attitude for death was considerably changed after the preliminary education. Fears and anxiety about death were more reduced and the inevitability of death was accepted positively. This result showed the influence of the preliminary death education had positive affliction of the elderly’s attitude for death. Accordingly, with the practice of the preliminary education we can release the elderly from the fear for death and guide them to live meaningly.
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