How to Arrange the Remembrance of Own Life for the Benefit of Successful Aging

Brodziak, Andrzej; Różyk-Myrta, Alicja; Wolińska, Agnieszka

doi:10.4172/2167-7182.1000359

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“…In our earlier work, we also proposed very practical ways to enable therapists, especially nurses, to aid the patient to restructure his remembrances and create a more "uplifting" story of his life [8]. In other words, we formulate in this paper the rules to support patients in obtaining a "balanced, memorized assessment of one's own live."…”

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The Story Theory is a Key Element of Many Holistic Nursing Procedures

Brodziak¹,

Wolińska²,

Różyk-Myrta³

2017

J Gerontol Geriatr Res

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The authors draw attention to the effective procedure performed by nurses aimed to counteract the adverse consequences of loneliness, the essence of which is due to the so-called "Story Theory". They recall that this "Story Theory" is one of the so-called "Middle Range Theories for Nursing", proposed by Mary Jane Smith and Patrycja Lier, which is a useful tool in formulating various psychotherapeutic interventions. The authors cite two of their own previous works, related to so-called "life review therapy," in which they also proposed practical therapeutic procedures in line with the essence of the "Story Theory". The cited papers describe the rules of conversation, enabling patients to obtain a "balanced, memorized assessment of one's own live". The authors remark that the present proposal of the Story Theory coincides with the current and increasingly more explicit awareness in the field of sociology and political science of the importance of the so-called narrative, or just constructing new stories, supporting the promotion of new, social ideas.

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confidence: 99%

The Story Theory is a Key Element of Many Holistic Nursing Procedures

Brodziak¹,

Wolińska²,

Różyk-Myrta³

2017

J Gerontol Geriatr Res

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“…As we emphasized already in our earlier paper [6] on autobiography memorization, one should pay attention not only to biographical facts but also to (d) important 'psychological transformations' concerning decisions on one's own further anticipated actions and behavior.…”

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“…They cause so called entanglements, and sometimes acts of revenge or plans to take vengeance [12][13][14]. As we mentioned, various literary works contain thrilling descriptions of such key mental changes [6].…”

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The Publication of Data on Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults and Risk of Dementia Gives Rise to Broadening this Issue on Problems of Patient's Overall Life Trajectories

Brodziak¹,

Myrta²

2016

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Recent publications of data on the trajectories of depressive symptoms prompted the authors to consider the advisability of widening the debate on the possibilities of setting and recording 'general, overall trajectories of life'. The authors set themselves the goal of formulating the outline of a method for determining the overall trajectory of life and ways of presenting such a data set. The authors argue that if the trajectory of life concerns aspects related to the estimation of health, then the most concise and useful way of its presentation is to formulate the so-called 'Sequence of adverse life events' that led to the illness or health disaster. The authors cite an example of such a record. They also emphasize that considering the general trajectory of life requires not only the use of methods arising from neural sciences (autobiographic memory) and various schools of psychology, but that it is very useful to refer to distinguished literary (cultural) works.

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