The Meaning of Healthy Life Period for Older People after Serious Illness: A Regional Study of Four Participants in the Age of 70-92 Living in the Arctic Region of Norway

Abstract

Introduction: To find life meaningful for retired persons living with serious illness and loss of partners is still possible though advanced age. Affiliation and complicity, meeting new neighbours because of mowing from home to a new elderly home and being social active is important for their health.