在台灣，高齡妻子成為失能配偶照顧者的情形非常普遍，然而這群女性的辛苦卻往往被輕忽。本研究希望了解高齡妻子照顧配偶的心路歷程與生活經驗，以喚起社會大眾對這群女性的關注。本研究以雲林偏鄉一位高齡八十的阿嬤為研究對象，以深度訪談探討阿嬤照顧配偶的心路歷程和因應之道，研究結果如下：(1)受訪者因為對先生、孩子與家庭的愛及責任，促使她勇敢承擔起照顧者的任務；(2)照顧工作對受訪者造成的影響包括：生理、心理、家庭系統、社交以及休閒生活；(3)受訪者的調適與因應之道包括：外在調適、情緒調適以及認知調適。

In Taiwan, it is very common that elderly wives take care of their sick spouses. However, the hardships those elderly caregivers face are often neglected and remain unnoticed. The purpose of the current study is to understand the daily experiences of the elderly caregiver and to explore how they take the challenges in taking care of their ill spouses. Hopefully, the current study would enable people to recognize and acknowledge the noble acts of those caring women. The study has adopted qualitative method using an in-depth interview of an elderly caregiver over 80 years old in Yunlin County. The significant results obtained from the study are: (1) the primary reason for the interviewee to choose to be a family caregiver is her love and responsibility for her husband, children, and other family members. (2) The caring job influenced the physical health, psychological health, family system, and social condition of the elderly family caregiver. (3) The factors that the elderly family caregiver copes up in this challenging task are mainly external adaption, emotional adaption and recognition adaptation.