2017 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 76-84
The purpose of this research is to identify factors that motivate elderly people and resignation public health nurses to continue engaging in community activities together. We conducted a qualitative inductive research using semi-structured interviews with 14 elderly people who were participating residents and 6 resignation public health nurses. The findings pertaining to both groups were extracted into 9 categories. Participating residents’ categories included “individual factors,” “environmental factors,” and “regulatory factors,” and the resignation public health nurses’ categories included “categories of resignation public health nurse’s activities,” and “relationships and roles as resignation public health nurse.” Since the categories overlapping the participating residents and the public health nurses were extracted, the relationship between the two was considered to be an equal partnership. Also, in collaborative activities, we have raised personal empowerment, created a process of interaction, created conditions and environments that can demonstrate the power of the community, leading to community-based community building. It was thought that community empowerment was established there, and it was the driving force for continued activity.
