The Implementation of Life-Review Intervention to Increase the Quality of Life on Elderly Widows

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10.2991/assehr.k.210423.020How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Elderly Widows, Life-Review Intervention, Quality of Life

Abstract

Quality of Life is the viewpoint or perspective of individuals regarding how good their currently experienced life is. In later adulthood (old age), there are many changes, such as changes in physical and cognitive abilities, and also changes in social roles and emotional conditions, especially on elderly women whose husband or spouse had passed away. This condition can affect the Quality of Life of such individuals. The goal of this research was implementing the Life-Review Intervention, which was reviewing the individuals’ experiences since childhood to late adulthood using the recall, reassess, reevaluate, and reintegrate processes to increase the Quality of Life of the participants. The participants in this research were two elderly widows of 54 and 63 years of age, living in East Java, who had been widows for around two years. The research method used was experimental research with single case A-B-A design, with the Quality of Life measured using the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire as the main data, alongside interview and observation as the supportive data. Assessment results showed the participants having the typically negative Quality of Life on physical and psychological aspects while having the typically positive Quality of Life on social and environmental aspects. Interventions results showed that Life-Review Intervention guided individuals to reflect on their life experiences by remembering positive experiences and viewing negative experiences from different perspectives. As the result, the two participants were able to increase their physical and psychological quality, though the social and environmental aspects tended to be stable.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Venty Ratnasari Telaumbanua
AU  - Srisiuni Sugoto
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/24
TI  - The Implementation of Life-Review Intervention to Increase the Quality of Life on Elderly Widows
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Psychological Studies (ICPSYCHE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 138
EP  - 144
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210423.020
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210423.020
ID  - Telaumbanua2021
ER  -