A Study on Empowerment Process and Its Promotion Factor of the Aged in a Community-Based Mini-Day-Service

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  • コミュニティを基盤としたミニデイサービス事業にみる高齢者エンパワメントプロセスと促進要因の検討

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We noticed the Mini-Day-Service implemented at K town of I city, S Pref. as a community activity to continuously support the better life of the aged. We qualitatively analyzed the participants' psychology and behaviors described by themselves and observed by supporters to examine the promotion factors and the process of empowerment of the aged. As a result, we found 14 main items and categorized them into 5, and demonstrated as follows; The empowerment of the Mini-Day participants is characterized as a gradual process which progresses from persistence in thinking, concern to participants/other persons, self-expression, sharing/sympathy of daily happenings, mutual recognition of existence to natural behavior. Factors of the empowerment promotion of the Mini-Day participants are the promotion of participation and the promotion of their mutual dialogue/sympathy. As the extracted items are similar to the indices of QOL and empowerment of the aged, and we considered that the Mini-Day is related to QOL of the participants.

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