Okamoto Nobuo    Department   Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare  ,    Position   Professor
Article types	総説
Language	Japanese
Peer review	Peer reviewed
Title	Research on Daily Spiritual Experiences (DSE) for the Elderly : Focusing on Literature in English
Domestic / Foregin	Domestic
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.421-429
Author and coauthor	Nobuo Okamoto
Authorship	Lead author
Publication date	2021/03
Summary	This paper focuses on English-speaking literature on the “Daily Spiritual Experiences” (DSE) of the elderly related to the social welfare area, especially social work. An overview of the history and contents of research on support in the welfare area was reviewed. As a result, the target of DSE research in the welfare area was the general elderly, that is, citizens living in the community. This can be said to generalize the DSE to the citizen level and emphasize its everydayness. In addition, DSE studies were discussed in the context of health in a broad sense, based on empirical studies using the DSES method. Furthermore, support for the elderly considering DSE in the welfare area was significantly associated with social support. Social support functioned in the relationship with the "transcendence" which is a characteristic of spirituality, and in social relationships such as communities, and contributed to the mitigation of DSE and depression in the elderly. This suggested that it is important that DSE is taken into consideration and social support is secured in the living support for the elderly in the welfare area.