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The Phenomenoloical Study on the Stress of Family Caregivers with Demented Elderly

  • Industry Promotion Research
  • Abbr : IPR
  • 2020, 5(2), pp.41-50
  • DOI : 10.21186/IPR.2020.5.2.041
  • Publisher : Industrial Promotion Institute
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : March 5, 2020
  • Accepted : April 17, 2020
  • Published : April 30, 2020

Lee Young Man 1 shin,dong-yul 2

1키즈코리아상담연구소
2대한신학대학원대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

WIn Korea, the rapid rise of elderly population and dementia prevalence resulting from the unprecedently rapid aging in the world is being emerged as a serious social issue. Caring the elderly with dementia is a different way from a general life and is a world which new cultural existential relationships are interlaced from the relationship viewpoint. From this aspect, the psychological matter of family caring a demented elderly needs to be studied for existential understanding in depth and fundamentally. This study focused on in-depth understanding and description of the stress phenomena experienced by family caregivers with a demented elderly based on Giorgi's method among phenomenological research methods and using existential group counseling techniques. Total 8 sessions of existential group counseling were conducted. This study drew out the outcomes(emotional stress, psychosocial stress, time-dependent stress) of participants’ self-awareness experiences by applying 4 steps of Giorgi’s phenomenological research methodology based on the Existential Philosophy to participant’s intensive statements about stress of family caring a demented elderly drawn out of the existential group counselling sessions. It is hoped that understanding the pain of the supporters who cannot express their own pains through the research results and their self-help group counseling activities will become active, contributing to the health of our society which is about to enter post-aged society.

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