Abstract
This qualitatively and inductively descriptive study aims to shed light on how the oldest-old people who suffer from illness in hospital undergo through the hospitalization and the medical treatment, by depicting scenes of medical treatment such as, nursing care, and their hospital life. I conducted interviews and participant-observer researches to four patients of a bracket of 85 or over and hospitalized in a hospital.
The results show to light four aspects of the patients' experience: they understand the state of their ill health and the medical treatment through their long-familiar physical senses and their experiences; their way of self-determination is "to place themselves in somebody's hands"; their "do-it-myself" life is threatened; but they have the feeling that "They have to survive even though …. " As for helping, it found that nursing "It helps that each oldest-old patient follows an everyday experience, the individual long history gives meaning to the sickness and approved the treatment." "The form of the various self-decisions that it is made by relations with the circumference and individual value isn't missed." "Nurse's and social value aren't pressed so that there may be old age which was rich in the individuality." (193Words)
