| Summary: | 碩士 === 南開科技大學 === 福祉科技與服務管理所 === 107 === According to the Health and Welfare Department, the ratio of the elderly living alone in 2018 was 1.3% of the population aged 65 or older. Most of the reasons for living alone were caused by family fac-tors. In the modern world, the number of grown-up children living with their parents has been on a decrease over the years. The proportion of elderly people living alone had risen year by year. So "elderly people living alone" became an issue of concern in the academic field. There-fore, my thesis explored the current academic research on “elderly people living alone” in Taiwan, using the electronic journals of Airiti Library as the source of information, and searching papers from 1999 to 2018 with the keyword “elderly people living alone.” There were, totally, 67 papers found on “elderly people living alone.” After sorting, 41 articles were excluded with no specific relation to the topic. Still there were 26 articles. The 26 articles were classified into three major aspects: physiology, psychology and technology. The results of the study showd that psychology category ranks first, with 17 articles accounting for 65.4%. The research interested include residential sat-isfaction, personality resilience, depression, community care,social welfare services, interpersonal relationships, social integration, family support systems, and satisfaction for medical instructions. The second fell in the physiological category, with 12 articles accounting for 46.2%. The research was mainly on the health condition of elderly people, long-term care needs, gait, daily life affairs handling, self-care, chronic drug use, etc. The remaining 6 articles belonged to technology category, accounting for 23.1%. The research contained the willingness of the elderly people living alone to use emergency rescue system, ways of the emergency rescue service, and the facilities in their home environment. In conclusion, the elderly people living alone, according to the above research, were the vulnerable physically and psychologically. They needed far more attention and social resources. This study provided recommendations for the three levels of elderly people living alone, the industry and relevant government departments to avoid letting they die alone.
Keywords: Home environment, Gait , Fall, Body function, Depression
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