Self-Care Experience of Bed-bound Elderly

Abstract

The purposes of this qualitative research was to explain the self-care experience of bed bound elderly. Purposive sampling was applied to recruit 8 bed-bound elderly who have been riding on the bed more than one year, could understand in Thai communication. The data were collected by in-depth interview with a semi-structured interview questionnaire which was constructed by researcher base on Orem’s self-care theory. and recorded the interview. Content analysis were conducted on Giorgi’s method.

The results showed that 1) the meaning of bed-bound elderly self-care was The activity to maintain performance, without increasing health problems, Included creating and developing their tacit and explicit knowledge for promotion self-care to decrease burden on caregiver’s and family. 2) The self-care of bed-bound elderly consists of taking care for providing sufficient food, water, and air at the caregivers’ convenience, normal digestive and Urinary system, clean body and environment, normal movement and good sleeping.