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KMID : 1023720150680010217
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2015 Volume.68 No. 1 p.217 ~ p.250
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Analysis of the Elderly with Parkinson’s Disease
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Kim Soo-Young
Choi Mal-Ok
Han Jin-Tae
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Abstract
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Concerns on chronic degenerative diseases and caring for the long-term care elderly are increasing as progresses in a highly compressive aging society. Parkinson``s disease brings difficulties in daily living activities, accompanying muscle stiffening, hand trembling, while the disease brings less impairment in cognitive functions, which on the other hand increases mental stress for patients and family burden as well. The purpose of this study is to investigate essential meaning of the experience going through the Parkinson``s disease by discovering the feelings of the elderly with Parkinson``s disease. By drawing 6 patients with Parkinson``s disease, we conducted 2~3 sessions of interview from April to September in 2012. The study is conducted by analyzing interview recordings and observation note of their exercise program with phenomenological methodology. The results indicate the central phenomenon of elderly with Parkinson``s disease as a process of ‘Searching for attitude to the life by looking back upon one``s life’. 26 subcategories and 7 topics are deducted throughout the process. Topics are classified as the time sequence, and each topic is correlated. Experience of disease according to the time sequence were classified as follows; ‘Discovering oneself different from the past.’, ‘fatal diagnosis’, ‘Trying to make efforts on putting back myself as in the past’, ‘Ashamed of own incompetence’, ‘Finding coping method of own’, ‘Finding hope out of dispair’, ‘Still remaining task’. Based on the fact, the study suggests practical and political alternatives on self management of elderly with Parkinson``s disease and increasing quality of life. Through suggested measures, elderly with Parkinson``s disease are expected to live within the community as a whole member of society.
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KEYWORD
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Parkinson`s disease, phenomenological study, self management, community
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