An expressive-arts-based life-death education program for the elderly: A qualitative study

This study endeavors to investigate how healthcare workers, equipped with expressive arts methods, could foster life-death education for the elderly. Forty-nine older adults aged 60 or above joined a 10-session expressive arts-based life-death education program that was led by social workers equippe...

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Published inDeath studies Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 131 - 140
Main Authors Nan, J. K. M., Pang, K. S. Y., Lam, K. K. F., Szeto, M. M. L., Sin, S. F. Y., So, C. S. C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Routledge 03.03.2020
Taylor & Francis LLC
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Art Therapy - methods
Attitude to Death - ethnology
Emotions
Female
Focus Groups
Health technology assessment
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Older people
Qualitative Research
Social Work - methods
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Summary:This study endeavors to investigate how healthcare workers, equipped with expressive arts methods, could foster life-death education for the elderly. Forty-nine older adults aged 60 or above joined a 10-session expressive arts-based life-death education program that was led by social workers equipped with expressive arts methods. An ethnographic research approach, with a post-treatment focus group (n = 17), was conducted with the participants. The results showed that expressive arts methods could enhance reorganization of life experiences, promote dealing with ambivalent emotion regarding life-death issues, improve communicating life-death issues with family members, and induce ideas to prepare for death.
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ISSN:0748-1187
1091-7683
DOI:10.1080/07481187.2018.1527413