Coping with ageing life-adjustments : role of music,media,song and spirituality on wellbeing
Ononiwu, Chukwuka (2013)
Diakonia-ammattikorkeakoulu
2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013112618376
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013112618376
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Ononiwu, Chukwuka, Lasbrey. ''Coping With Ageing Life-Adjustments: role of music, media, song and spirituality on wellbeing'' Autumn ,2013. 63p. 1 appendix. Diaconia University of Applied Sciences. Helsinki, Degree Program in Social Services and Option in Diaconia.
The thesis is an academic-oriented and fact-finding research to understand the role and benefits of the music, media, song and spirituality experiences on the wellbeing of the elderly people. The research was carried out in a life-world setting for an unfettered access to investigate the components of wellbeing which was assumed to be beyond the medical and physiological needs for the old and ageing people but incorporates broader and wider elements to promote the methods of coping with ageing life-challenges.
The qualitative research method is by means of observation and interviewing and both were tenable to inform more objectively and also to test the views of previous research on the research phenomenon. The means of conceptual framework using an idea on integrated care model and reading of relevant literature review were all useful to explore and test the descriptive roles of the research elements and they presented certain findings on means of coping with ageing issues and the advancement of comprehensive wellbeing for the elderly people.
The results revealed multifaceted ideas of needs that also require tactful methods of problem-solving and among these is the value attached to spiritual needs which is ameliorated by the means of collaborative care processes involving other partners as the faith-based organizations. Further result underscored the ideas on integrated care model as a practical approach and a road-map to where service-user satisfactory social work should be oriented as the ageing population continues to rise in future.
KEY WORDS: ageing, wellbeing, elderly, therapy, participation, identity, lifestyle.
The thesis is an academic-oriented and fact-finding research to understand the role and benefits of the music, media, song and spirituality experiences on the wellbeing of the elderly people. The research was carried out in a life-world setting for an unfettered access to investigate the components of wellbeing which was assumed to be beyond the medical and physiological needs for the old and ageing people but incorporates broader and wider elements to promote the methods of coping with ageing life-challenges.
The qualitative research method is by means of observation and interviewing and both were tenable to inform more objectively and also to test the views of previous research on the research phenomenon. The means of conceptual framework using an idea on integrated care model and reading of relevant literature review were all useful to explore and test the descriptive roles of the research elements and they presented certain findings on means of coping with ageing issues and the advancement of comprehensive wellbeing for the elderly people.
The results revealed multifaceted ideas of needs that also require tactful methods of problem-solving and among these is the value attached to spiritual needs which is ameliorated by the means of collaborative care processes involving other partners as the faith-based organizations. Further result underscored the ideas on integrated care model as a practical approach and a road-map to where service-user satisfactory social work should be oriented as the ageing population continues to rise in future.
KEY WORDS: ageing, wellbeing, elderly, therapy, participation, identity, lifestyle.