Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2019 – Health Science and Nursing (IcoSIHSN 2019)

Older Adults’ Acceptance of Death: A Grounded Theory Approach

Authors
Minnie Mamauag
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Minnie Mamauag
Available Online October 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icosihsn-19.2019.20How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Older Adults, Death Experiences, Acceptance, Grounded theory
Abstract

The issue of death anxiety and fear of death has been a great concern of health care providers due to its emotional and behavioral outcomes among the recipients of care. Theoretical propositions and observed findings on death concept have not been thoroughly examined in nursing researches specifically those coming from the elderly’s point-of-view. This theory generation utilized the grounded theory methodology via inductive approach to theory development that would explain the death experience, consciousness and acceptance towards death in an individual’s lifetime. Data were gathered from the older population using purposive sampling. Interviews were semi-structured and based on the death perception and experiences of the older participants. Both memo writing and comparative analysis were used during the course of the study, aided by the method of open, axial and selective coding. Theoretical categories were generated to derive the following propositions: Overcoming death experiences results to death acceptance; death consciousness influence death acceptance; death acceptance lead to the process of death preparation; and spirituality is an essential element of death experience, death consciousness, death acceptance and death preparation. The theory generated is that death acceptance is an accumulation of death experiences and one’s spiritual beliefs which translate to death consciousness that results to the acceptance of one’s mortality gearing towards death preparation.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2019 – Health Science and Nursing (IcoSIHSN 2019)
Series
Advances in Health Sciences Research
Publication Date
October 2019
ISBN
10.2991/icosihsn-19.2019.20
ISSN
2468-5739
DOI
10.2991/icosihsn-19.2019.20How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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