Spiritual reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression living in a residential aged care facility, Malaysia: A qualitative approach
Objective: To explore how older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression experience a spiritual reminiscence therapy (SRT) program and to explore its acceptability within the Malaysian population. Methods: Unstructured observations and a focus-group discussion were carried out with 18 par...
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2019
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/1/67639_Spiritual%20reminiscence%20therapy_article.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/2/67639_Spiritual%20reminiscence%20therapy_wos.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/3/67639_Spiritual%20reminiscence%20therapy_scopus.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajag.12598 |
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| Institution: | Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia |
| Language: | English English English |
| Summary: | Objective: To explore how older people with loneliness,
anxiety and depression experience a spiritual reminiscence
therapy (SRT) program and to explore its acceptability
within the Malaysian population.
Methods: Unstructured observations and a focus-group
discussion were carried out with 18 participants involved
in a six-week SRT program in a residential care facility in
Kuala Lumpur.
Results: Analysis revealed four themes: (i) Enthusiastic
participation; (ii) Connections across boundaries; (iii)
Expressing and reflecting; and (iv) Successful use of
triggers.
Conclusions: The findings suggest that the process of
reminiscence, on which the program was based, was
enjoyable for the participants and created opportunities to
form connections with other members of the group. The
use of relevant triggers in the SRT program that related to
Malaysian cultures, ethnicities and religions was helpful to
engage the participants and was acceptable across the
different religions and ethnicities.
Policy Impact: The findings contribute to understanding
social identity theory. Shared spiritual identity is
possible in multiethnic and multireligious populations
through connecting across different religions and finding
similarities from shared memories and stories.
Practice Impact: Spiritual reminiscence therapy is a
worthwhile program for older people with loneliness,
anxiety and depression, and future development of
spiritual reminiscence therapy among older people living
in residential aged care facilities is supported. |
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