Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
Independent researchers, Hong Kong, China.
Death Stud. 2020;44(3):131-140. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2018.1527413. Epub 2018 Dec 7.
This study endeavors to investigate how healthcare workers, equipped with expressive arts methods, could foster life-death education for the elderly. Forty-nine older adults aged 60 or above joined a 10-session expressive arts-based life-death education program that was led by social workers equipped with expressive arts methods. An ethnographic research approach, with a post-treatment focus group ( = 17), was conducted with the participants. The results showed that expressive arts methods could enhance reorganization of life experiences, promote dealing with ambivalent emotion regarding life-death issues, improve communicating life-death issues with family members, and induce ideas to prepare for death.
本研究旨在探讨医护人员如何运用表达艺术方法，为老年人提供生死教育。49 名 60 岁及以上的老年人参加了一个由社会工作者主导的、为期 10 节的表达艺术生死教育课程。采用后处理焦点小组（n=17）的民族志研究方法对参与者进行研究。结果表明，表达艺术方法可以增强生活经验的重新组织，促进处理与生死问题相关的矛盾情绪，提高与家庭成员沟通生死问题的能力，并引发为死亡做准备的想法。
