| Summary: | 碩士 === 長榮大學 === 社會工作學系碩士班 === 101 === Abstract
This research is focused on the experiences and the difficulties for aged volunteers who are continuingly participating in the home-service for elders. The researcher uses the purposive sampling and qualitative research in-depth interview methods to interview seven aged volunteers for Huashan Social Welfare Foundation. The findings are as followed:
1. The chances to join the home-service for the aged volunteers.
The chances to try to look for the diversities in lives, hope to help the weakness, be invited by important persons, and be affected by the atmosphere and the convenience. All pushes the aged volunteers to join the services.
2. The reasons of continuingly participate the home-service for aged volunteers.
The reasons include, maintaining the social relationships, increasing the happiness and self-values, the feedbacks, the highly freedoms, and the re-thoughts of family relationships and educations. The findings of family relationships and educations are different from the previous studies.
3. The reasons of hindering.
The organizations, the special demand case, the case’s family, and private reasons from aged volunteers, will all hinder the continuous services.
4. The frustrations and difficulties
The aged volunteers mostly have the optimistic attitude to face the problems, approve the values of services, and look for the realistic methods, such as turning to problem solvers, adjusting the services approaches, attending the training classes to improve the knowledge and skill, in order to elevate the motives of the continuous services.
5. The reasons of quitting.
The aged volunteers may leave the services due to health situations, organizations issues, the family attitudes and so on.
The researcher would bring up some suggestions from this study to the governments and private sectors.
Keywords：aged volunteer、home-service、continuingly participate、elderly
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