A hermeneutic phenomenological explorations of living in old age

Strengths promoting the recovery process in older adults with depression

“…In other words, participants related to me how, through their experience of old age and depression, they felt released for the first time from the values they had been caught up in up to that point and learned to live without hiding or keeping everything so tightly managed. This is similar to the phenomenon whereby elderly people accept situations, feel fortunate and make new discoveries about themselves, regardless of their physical limitations or lack of independence (De Juan Pardo, Russo, & Roqué Sánchez, ). In a study of minority ethnic groups in the UK, older adults with depression were reported to feel responsibility combatted depression (Calhoun & Tedeschi, ).…”

Life as Experienced Within and Through the Body After the Age of 85 Years: A Metasynthesis of Primary Phenomenological Research

“…In this metasynthesis, we observed that participants in the primary studies describe the previously absent body as a significant presence in their everyday lives. The body is perceived as an obstacle (Haggblom-Kronlof et al, 2007), as foreign and unreliable (Bruun-Olsen et al, 2018;Clancy et al, 2015;Pardo et al, 2018), and as the cause of feeling trapped (Sjoberg et al, 2017) and isolated (Dickens et al, 2011;Smith, 2012). The perception of the body as an obstacle echoes Gilleard and Higgs's (2018) reflections on the body as "betrayer" or "traitor" to the individuals' sense of self.…”

“…Loss of the habitual and taken-for-granted body (Fuchs, 2012) is one of many losses experienced by older people. Multidimensional losses extend to loss of health and mobility (Hinck, 2004;Hovbrandt et al, 2007;Larsson et al, 2009;Pusztai, 2015), of meaning and purpose (Sjoberg et al, 2017), of independence and autonomy (Bruun-Olsen et al, 2018;Gilleard & Higgs, 2010), of dignity and the will to live (Van Wijngaarden et al, 2015), of home (Johnson & Bibbo, 2014;Saarnio et al, 2017), and of friends and loved ones (Ness et al, 2014;Pardo et al, 2018;Smith, 2012). This culmination of losses can result in existential pain and suffering (Gudmannsdottir & Halldorsdottir, 2009).…”

“…The primary studies included for review explored a variety of phenomena related to the lived experience of this group. These included perceptions and experiences of falls, fall injury, and fall prevention (Bruun-Olsen et al, 2018;Clancy et al, 2015); chronic pain (Gudmannsdottir & Halldorsdottir, 2009); living independently and the importance of home (Bergland & Slettebo, 2015;Hinck, 2004;Larsson et al, 2009;Ness et al, 2014;Saarnio et al, 2017) and navigating life outside the home (Hovbrandt et al, 2007); the experience of loneliness (Smith, 2012), existential loneliness (Sjoberg et al, 2017), and inner strength (Nygren et al, 2007); a study exploring end-oflife decisions (Van Wijngaarden et al, 2015); perceptions of the future (Nilsson et al, 2003); and everyday activities, concerns, changes, and adaptive strategies (Caldas & Bertero, 2007;Fischer et al, 2008;Haggblom-Kronlof et al, 2007;Pardo et al, 2018;Pusztai, 2015).…”

Lost in Translation: The Promise and Problems of the Globalization of Research

“…Contributing to the experience of aging is how persons are treated and perceived by others in their family, work place, social groups, culture, country, and world, but it also follows from their values and beliefs. The meaning of aging and the experience of the impact of the changes associated with aging arises in space and time (De Juan Pardo, Russo, & Roque Sanchez, 2018), which is always changing and unpredictable (Parse, 2014).…”