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KMID : 1025820210290010059
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Family and Family Therapy
2021 Volume.29 No. 1 p.59 ~ p.87
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A Study on Older Women's Caring for their Spouse based on Grounded Theory Methods
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Jeong Seon-Yi
Cha Seung-Eun
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study is to examine the caring experience and self-care process of older women caring for a spouse based on in-depth interview data. The study also focuses on finding how caregivers practice their self-care and the barriers that prevent caregivers from achieving self-care.
Methods: We employed eleven older wives caring for their spouses and collected their stories of care experience and life history, applying the grounded theory method to analyze the in-depth data.
Results: The results revealed that the central phenomenon of the caring experience was ‘broken life’ and the initial causal condition was ‘the beginning of care’. Pursuit of self-care emerged as wives attempted to control the care situation alone and to overcome their care burden. However, the core categories of “restraint like fate”, “support for endless sacrifice”, and “take care of me” reflect that wives’ current self-care practices seem to be insufficient to demonstrate their active agency and mastery.
Conclusions: Based on our findings, we discuss the professional counseling plans and policy intervention strategies.
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KEYWORD
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middle-aged and elderly women, caring for spouse, self-care, Grounded Theory
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