Abstract
Purpose: To explore the older adults'leisure participations and leisure constraints. Methods: Based on leisure constraints theory, a focus-group design was employed to gather in-depht interview data, twenty older adults ages 65 years or more whom lived in Jianshih Township (n=8) and Wufong Township (n=12), Hsinchu county were invited to participate this study in purposive sampling. Two focus groups were conducted at 2009 November and 2010 January. Results: The main findings of this study were (a) the rank of the top five leisure activities they took apart were: religion activities, strolling, chating, to get together with relatives and friends, and watching TV. (b) for these older indigenous tribe adults, lacking of money, lacking of time(they almost must take care of their grandchildren), lacking of place, weak wealth status, and inconvenient transportation were the main leisure constraints for them. (c) faced to leisure constraints , the older indigenous tribe adults took their own negotiation strategy to change themselves cognition about leisure, then, they took apart the other leisure activities. Conclusions: Using focus-group method, we explored the indigenous tribe older adults'leisure participations and leisure constraints. We found there were some different findings from previous studies. Also, we found when faced to leisure constraints, they had their own leisure negotiation strategy. It could be valuable for future studies.