Schools of Technology and Society, Department of Social Psychology, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden.
Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2013 Apr 18;8:1-8. doi: 10.3402/qhw.v8i0.20587.
This article presents a phenomenological analysis of interview material, in which 12 care professionals in elderly care reflect on the elderly's well-being within the frame of special housing accommodation. The perspective of the care professionals is of special interest. The findings show that the well-being is characterized as the elderly's feelings of being existentially touched. The well-being is an existential experience of being acknowledged as a human being and is an approach that classifies the elderly's needs as those of having, loving, and being. The meaning of the phenomenon is elucidated by the constituents: (1) to feel the freedom of choice, (2) to feel pleasure, and (3) to feel closeness to someone or something. The findings contribute new understanding of well-being in the elderly care by its existential dimension of the well-being as "just being" and of doing things in order to experience meaningfulness. Accordingly, the well-being of the elderly as it is seen from the perspective of the care professionals involves both carers' subjectivity and intersubjectivity between the care professional and the elderly. An implication for promoting elderly's well-being is to develop awareness of these existential dimensions.
本文对访谈材料进行了现象学分析，其中 12 名老年护理专业人员在特殊住房环境中反思老年人的幸福感。护理专业人员的观点特别有趣。研究结果表明，幸福感的特点是老年人存在被触动的感觉。幸福感是一种被承认为人类的存在体验，是一种将老年人的需求分类为拥有、爱和存在的方法。这一现象的意义可以通过以下组成部分来阐明：（1）感到选择的自由，（2）感到愉悦，（3）感到与某人或某事亲近。研究结果通过幸福感的存在维度“只是存在”和为了体验意义而做事，为老年护理中的幸福感提供了新的理解。因此，从护理专业人员的角度来看，老年人的幸福感既涉及到护理人员的主观性，也涉及到护理专业人员和老年人之间的主体间性。促进老年人幸福感的一个含义是要意识到这些存在维度。
