| Summary: | 碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 社會福利與社會工作學系碩士在職專班 === 104 === With the lifespan expansion and the mortality reduction, many countries have stepped into aging society. During the aging process in Taiwan society, the percent of elderly population is increasingly higher, while the fertility rate is overly low. Consequently, Taiwan’s pace of aging is so fast that it has ranked into the fastest countries around the world. Also there is only a short period of time for Taiwan to cope with the related issues brought by aging population. Moreover, the elderly people have unique demands to be satisfied in the career, so as to achieve satisfaction. What kind of demands do the elderly people have to be satisfied to make them feel happy? It deserves in-depth exploration.
The study compiles the Questionnaire for Demands and Life Satisfaction of Elderly People and takes the elderly people aged above 55 who often participate in the community activity center in Hsinchu Region. It aims to explore the situation of demands and life satisfaction among the elderly people. The connotation of demands of elderly people is divided into three dimensions, namely, leisure activity, family relationship and social service activity. With purposive sampling, it obtains 413 valid questionnaires. The questionnaire data are conducted with statistical analysis to validate various hypotheses. The analysis methods include descriptive statistics, factor analysis, credibility analysis, one-way ANOVA, multiple regression, and Person correlation analysis. It is to understand the difference between the overall situation, correlation and independent variables of the life demands and life satisfaction for elderly people.
The key findings as below are found based on the results of statistical analysis:
Ⅰ. Leisure activity, family relationship and social service activity among
the demands of elderly people generally show good situation.
Ⅱ. The life satisfaction of elderly people show medium and high level.
Ⅲ. The females show higher demands than the males in the dimensions of
leisure activity, family relationship and social service activity.
Ⅳ. The life satisfaction of elderly people shows significant difference
under different genders, living situations and economic incomes.
Ⅴ.The life satisfaction shows correlation with such demand dimensions as
elderly participation demand, family relationship demand, emotional
support demand and study activity demand.
The study proposes the following suggestions based on the study results:
1、The elderly people should attach more emphasis on their health.
Theyshould take physical exercises properly and take part in more leisure activities, so as to bring more fun in life.
2、It should design more study activity courses for the female elderly people. The female elderly show higher study demands than the male elderly do. Therefore, it may design courses of study activity for the females specially.
3、It should provide more programs of social service activity. No matter what traits the elderly people have, they all embrace the demands of social service activity. Therefore, it may provide more connotation of social service.
4、The family members should care for the elderly people more. Regardless of the age difference, all elderly people are looking forward to emotional consolation from their family. So the family members should care for the elderly people more.
5、The male elderly people may learn how to get adaptive to the retirement life. The females show higher life satisfaction than the males. Therefore, the male elderly people should learn how to enrich the life connotation after retirement.
6、 It should lay more emphasis on family management. Most of the elderly people expect to return home. Therefore, it is suggested the ordinary citizens should make efforts in family management, and show more care for the family members.
7、The elderly people should participate in more study activities. One should keep studying as long as one lives. The elderly people should continue to learn new knowledge, so their views won’t be out of date.
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