A Narrative Inquiry of Experience of the Elderly's Living with Chronic Disease in Hospital-based Home Care Services

병원중심가정간호를 받는 만성질환 노인의 삶의 경험에 관한 내러티브 탐구

  • Received : 2011.04.02
  • Accepted : 2011.05.02
  • Published : 2011.06.30

Abstract

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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