2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Nostalgia as an Instrument for Maintaining and Improving Purpose in Life: Supporting Healthy and Infirm Elderly People
Project/Area Number |
24530765
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Social welfare and social work studies
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Research Institution | Kobe Women's University |
Principal Investigator |
TSUDA Rieko 神戸女子大学, 健康福祉学部, 准教授 (80441202)
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Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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Keywords | 社会福祉領域 / 回想法 / 高齢者 / 地域作り / 生きがい |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The Kaisoho School is a community-building initiative that aims to help elderly people to work together to sustain and improve their mutual sense of purpose in life. For healthy elderly people, it is realized through their involvement as volunteers in the operation of the school, while infirm elderly people seek to accomplish this by participating as members. Consequently, the healthy elderly people experienced a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction. The sense of having a purpose in life indicated a slight rise for 77 participants in group reminiscence activities, successfully re-establishing connections of those elderly people who had previously been socially reclusive with society. Furthermore, the results of a survey of awareness of the reminiscence method conducted among 2,303 elderly welfare-oriented facilities and institutions revealed that 62.9% of the total number were “aware” of reminiscence as a technique, indicating that it has achieved an adequate level of recognition.
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Free Research Field |
社会福祉学
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