高齢者を対象にしたデス・エデュケーションの可能性 : あるがままの自分を認めるための援助方法として

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The purpose of this article is to show the possibility of Death Education for the Elderly. The average life span of our country grows year by year, so it is a serious issue of the day whether we live better in the retirement and later life. To spend our remaining years in satisfactory, it is necessary not only to have the subject which is to be the value of life, but also to reconfirminate the mental and physical decline, and to accept of our own death. However, many people have a fear of death. Recently, people have more interests in the death. Even if the death often becomes our topic, it is difficult to consider our own death. For the Elderly who feel death are approaching, specially, it is more difficult to think, so it is necessary to give Death Education, which is to reconfirm their mental and physical declines and to accept our own death, for the Elderly. The proposal in this article is that the aim of Death Education is to change our values from "Having" to "Being" through the activities to consider our own death and to look back on our own lives.
1999-03-25