在社区生活的老年人中进行定性丧失体验和支持:一个范围审查
Samantha Teichman1, Barbara A Mitchell2, Indira Riadi1
1Department of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Omega
|December 16, 2024
概括
老年人面临着独特的悲伤挑战. 这份对24项研究的综述强调了丧亲如何影响福祉,并确定了有效支持老龄化人口的障碍和促进者.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 人口老龄化给老年人带来了独特的挑战,包括累积的损失和缩小的支持系统.
- 丧亲支持对老年人的福祉至关重要,可以帮助他们寻找意义,克服悲伤.
- 定性研究对于理解晚年悲伤的细微经历至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 对有关丧亲经验和对社区老年人支持的定性研究进行范围审查.
- 确定与悲伤,福祉和支持机制相关的关键主题.
- 突出知识差距,并为制定有针对性的丧亲支持策略提供信息.
主要方法:
- 进行了全面的范围搜索,以确定相关的定性研究.
- 综合了24项定性研究的结果.
- 主要主题被系统地提取和分析.
主要成果:
- 出现了四个主要主题:悲伤对福祉的影响,悲伤作为个人的问题,寻求/接受支持的挑战以及积极的支持经验.
- 悲伤极大地影响了老年人的整体健康.
- 支持存在障碍,但也报告了积极的经验和转变.
结论:
- 了解老年人悲伤的多面性质对于有效的支持至关重要.
- 需要有针对性的干预措施来应对寻求和接受丧亲支持的挑战.
- 进一步的研究应该集中在为这个人口群体制定和评估量身定制的支持战略上.
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