Restoring Balance—A Woman’s Expressions of Lived Experience of Everyday Life During a Period of Aging: A Case Study-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Restoring Balance—A Woman’s Expressions of Lived Experience of Everyday Life During a Period of Aging: A Case Study

Published:2023-01 Issue: Volume:60 Page:004695802311671
ISSN:0046-9580
Container-title:INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
language:en
Short-container-title:INQUIRY

Author:

Norell Pejner Margaretha¹²,Karlsson Staffan³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

2. Halmstad Municipality, Halmstad, Sweden

3. Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden

4. Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden

Abstract

Bereaved older people face stressors from the changes in roles associated with the death of a spouse. To illustrate the lived experience of everyday life during a period of aging after a woman’s loss of her spouse. One woman born in 1918 was followed between 74 and 80 years of age after her husband died. Data consisted of daily diary. The text from the diaries were analyzed with a phenomenological hermeneutical approach. Everyday life after becoming a widow is characterized by balancing between personal resources to manage everyday life and vulnerability. In health and social care, it is important to identify experiences of vulnerability because these are associated with poor health.

Funder

högskolan i halmstad

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Health Policy

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00469580231167133

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