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Aging Research 老龄化研究, 2014, 1, 16-22 Published Online March 2014 in Hans. /journal/ar /10.12677/ar.2014.11003 The Concept Analysis of Dignity Regarding of Elderly in Long-Term Care Institutions 1 2,3* Shu-Mei Chen , Tao-Hsin Tung 1 Department of Nursing, Yuan’s General Hospital, Kaohsiung 2 Department of Medicine Research and Education, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei 3 Faculty of Public Health, School of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City * Email: ch2876@.tw th nd th Received: Jan. 15 , 2014; revised: Jan. 22 , 2014; accepted: Feb. 10 , 2014 Copyright © 2014 by authors and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Dignity is human natural requirement, which has no rank discrimination. The concept of dignity to humans always keeps changing in the process of historical evolution. Although there are many domestic and foreign literatures regarding dignity, none tries to further analyze and sort out this concept. This article clarifies the conceptual definition and characteristics of dignity by way of adopting domestic and foreign literatures, and takes the institution of elderly people for example, establishing typical model, borderline and opposite case explanations, applying empirical refer- ences and medical care. The result shows that dignity is the subjective sense varying from person to person, which will be influenced by personal physical condition, their environment and care- givers. We hope