| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 護理學研究所碩士班 === 92 === The purpose of this study is to explore the self-esteem, social support and hope of the elderly in the long-term care facilities, and the relationships among the personal demographic data, self-esteem, social support, and hope. A cross-sectional and descriptive correlational design was conducted. There were 100 elderly selected from two government-funded living facilities in Kaohsiung and Pingtung cities. Four structured questionnaires were used including: (1) Personal Demographic Data, (2) Self-Esteem Scale, (3) Social Support Scale, (4) Herth Hope Scale. The data collected from these assessments were analyzed by using the descriptive statistics, t-test, and Pearson’s correlation.
The results of this study showed that: (1) The average hope shown by the elderly was just the medium level; “inner positive readiness and expectancy” and “interconnectedness with self and others” factors were the best, “inner sense of temporality and future” factor was the worst in the elderly’s hope. (2) The average self-esteem of the elderly was the medium level. (3) Of all the social support reported by the workers, “respectful” and “informational” support get much higher percentage; while “socialized” and “emotional” support get less. The family favor “respectful” and “informational” support than “tangible” and “emotional” support, while the residents from the living facilities agree “respectful” and “socialized” support more than “tangible” and “emotional” support. (4) Those with religious faiths, feeling they are in good health, can do their daily living activities independently and their senses of hope are generally higher. (5) The better the state of self-esteem is, the more support is given from the society, and the sense of hope gets higher.
The research result suggests the elderly attend religious activities inside or outside the living facilities seeking spiritual comfort; the disabled elderly should be positively encouraged to participate in rehabilitative activities, increase their self-care abilities, infuse their sense of hope; arranging some activities or sports suitable for the elderly to raise their awareness of health status, finding out the present living concerns for the elderly, helping the establishment of the aim of living, scheduling living plan for them. The staff, in their taking care of them, could actively realize or find out what hinders the elderly’s hope and what causes their low tide of self-esteem, giving individual care for each, seeking social support from working staff, families, and residents to raise the sense of hope of the elderly in the long-term care facilities.
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