Ren Puxiang
Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, DK Denmark.
Curr Psychol. 2022 Feb 27:1-15. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-02921-6.
The demand for care homes appears to be emerging as a key future trend in response to the burgeoning population of older adults, with the need for care provision increasing accordingly. Life quality, happiness and well-being are important factors associated with the care of older residents. This qualitative study explores how older adults moving into care homes view their life quality, from their own perspectives, in two quite different cultural contexts, Chinese and Danish. Older care residents in Shanghai and Denmark participated in the study by means of semi-structured and in-depth interviews. An interpretive phenomenological analysis approach was used for data analysis. Four interrelated themes were identified: positive transfer; positive environment; positive capability and positive experience. The findings demonstrated that older adults considered their quality of life as the result of a dynamic process. Their pursuit of a harmonious status, centered on "change" as the core value, which encompassed both the simplicities and complexities of life. Both older adult groups cared more about their emotional wellbeing, which focused mainly on positive emotions being stimulated while negative emotions were shunned. In the situations when they were "harmonized" by society systems, there was an important emotional thread which continued throughout their whole life that was strongly associated with life quality which was the relationship with family members - be it in the past, present or future.
随着老年人数量的迅速增长，对养老院的需求似乎正成为未来一个关键趋势，相应地，护理服务的需求也在增加。生活质量、幸福和福祉是与老年居民护理相关的重要因素。这项定性研究探讨了在中国和丹麦这两种截然不同的文化背景下，入住养老院的老年人从自身角度如何看待他们的生活质量。上海和丹麦的老年护理居民通过半结构化和深入访谈参与了该研究。数据分析采用了解释性现象学分析方法。确定了四个相互关联的主题：积极转移；积极环境；积极能力和积极体验。研究结果表明，老年人将他们的生活质量视为一个动态过程的结果。他们追求以“变化”为核心价值的和谐状态，这种状态涵盖了生活的简单与复杂。两个老年人群体都更关心他们的情绪健康，主要关注激发积极情绪同时回避消极情绪。在他们被社会系统“协调”的情况下，有一条贯穿他们一生的重要情感线索，这与生活质量密切相关，即与家庭成员的关系——无论是过去、现在还是未来。
