Coping Problem Solving and Mental Health of Aging od Child. Rearing, AmphoeMeaung, Mahasarakham Province
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This research aims to studying the problems, problem solving and mental health of theelderly persons in Muang district of MahaSarakham province, who are transient guardians of theirgrandchildren. This study is qualitative research, which uses the methodology of phenomenologicalresearch with the experiences of the 8 elderly persons in the urban area, who are selected by thepurposive sampling method, and are glad and agree to share their experiences with in-depth interview and observation. After that, the collected data were processed, extract and analyzed by using software.
As the result, the elderly persons agree that child caring is not a considered burdensome task, but they are happy. They need to care their grandchild, because they believe that they can take care them better than other. However, when caring the child, the problems of old persons are healthand economic. The common health problems are knee and back pain. The income and expense arenot balance, is common economic problem. Because, the most of income is come from the parents of their grandchild and it is insufficient. Finding the parental care problems, infants or young children are often sick, eat less and sleepless that older person can be exposed and they have to manipulate their emotions by controlling and escaping from that situation, then they try to solve theproblem. For the mental health, the most of elderly persons have normal mental with no high stress.Nevertheless, the mental health is related with the physical health problems and economic problems.
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