眷村老人之生活士氣

A Study on Morale of the Elderly in a Veterans'Village

本研究的目的在探討眷村老人的生活士氣以及影響眷村老人士氣的相關因素。樣本來自南部某眷村認知功能沒問題的老人，於個別同意下接受結構式問卷訪談，共計完成108位老人之探訪，其中有效樣本為97位。研究對象平均年齡是73.3歲，在自我照顧能力上屬於低程度部份依賴，老人士氣分量表裡以孤單的不滿分量表得分最低，表示此項士氣最高。探究影響眷村老人士氣的結果為在人口特性上：居住型態不同的老人在對自己老化態度此項士氣上有顯著差異，有否困擾生活的身體不適、參與娛樂休閒與否及自覺健康狀況與老人的整體生活士氣有顯著相關，自我照顧能力項目中與老人整體士氣有顯著相關性的有日常生活能力、身體移動性、心理社會能力及疼痛等四項。此外，心理社會功能和失眠總共可以解釋眷村老人士氣變異量的25.9%。因此，提供眷村老人適當的社交活動、輔助記憶方法、情緒調節技巧、改善眷村狹隘的住家間隔，以及給予失眠的衛教指導，應可以部份增加眷村老人的生活士氣。

The purpose of this study was to understand the morale among elder residents and related factors of morale in veterans'village. The subjects were elderly with intact functioning of cognition in the Southern of Taiwan. All of the subjects were interviewed under their willingness to response these structured questionnaires. There were 108 received subjects but with 97 effected. The average age is 73.3; average score on self-care is right on low level partial dependence. The one with lowest score in the revised-PGC three subscales is lonely dissatisfaction. Those factors related to agitation, attitudes toward own aging, lonely dissatisfaction, or total elderly morale are following as living style, physical malaise, leisure activity participating, health comprehension and self-care ability. Besides, psychosocial functioning and insomnia accounted for 25.9 % of total variance of elderly morale. Therefore, opening social activities, assisting elderly memory, comforting elderly emotion, remodeling the housing space and providing good guidance about insomnia for them will promote the morale of the elderly in the veterans'village.