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An Exploratory Study Of The Impacts On Gardening To Older People : Case Study To "Tsuen Wan Golden Organic Farming Project", Asia-Pacific Institute Of Ageing Studies, Lingnan University, Produce Green Foundation

APIAS Working Paper 工作論文

Aims

This was an exploratory study to investigate how gardening could enhance and strengthen the physical health, psychological well-being and social networks of older participants.

Design and participants

Qualitative research methodology was adopted in this study. Interviews were conducted on ten elderly people. In order to check and confirm the information collected in the in-depth interviews and provide more useful information for our study, four older participants and four volunteer workers were invited to join our two focus group discussions (N=8) upon the completion of the in-depth interview. Data was collected between March and July of 2004.

Findings

In this …