Lost dignity: predominant experience of old age by the elderly
Paying attention to the views of the elderly and identifying their understanding of old age can be great help for proper consideration about their needs and problems. The purpose of this study was to understand the predominant experience of elderly people of aging. Hermeneutics phenomenology was use...
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| author | Leila Sadeghmoghadam Mahshid Foroughan Farahnaz Mohammadi Shahboulaghi Fazlollah Ahmadi Akram Farhadi Shima Nazari Masoumeh Amiri Delui |
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| description | Paying attention to the views of the elderly and identifying their understanding of old age can be great help for proper consideration about their needs and problems. The purpose of this study was to understand the predominant experience of elderly people of aging. Hermeneutics phenomenology was used to collect data, and the van Manen's method was implemented to analyze those data. The required data was collected by having 10 deep semi-structured interviews with the elderly from Tehran, Mashhad and Gonabad– cities, Iran, and then was analyzed for the explanation of the notion of old-age.Three views that were extracted aging agony, lost independence and marginalization. These can reflect the negative viewpoints of the elderly about the aging phenomenon. The elderly’s aging description can provide experts and employees in various sanitary, training and social departments with invaluable data in order to decrease the current problems facing the elderly to plan for their future and better communicate with them, and finally enhance the available knowledge about elderly and their quality of life. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-76c48b5f5e1749beb4568ee1f093b3fb2022-12-22T02:40:20ZengGonabad University of Medical SciencesJournal of Research & Health2423-57172423-57172019-09-019538138610.29252/jrh.9.5.381Lost dignity: predominant experience of old age by the elderlyLeila Sadeghmoghadam0Mahshid Foroughan1Farahnaz Mohammadi Shahboulaghi2Fazlollah Ahmadi3Akram Farhadi4Shima Nazari5Masoumeh Amiri Delui6Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Department of Mental & Aging Nursing, School of Nursing, Gonabad University of Medical Science, Gonabad, IranDepartment of Aging, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IranDepartment of Nursing, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IranDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IranDepartment of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, IranDepartment of Community and Geriatric Nursing School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Department of Social Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Science, Gonabad, IranPaying attention to the views of the elderly and identifying their understanding of old age can be great help for proper consideration about their needs and problems. The purpose of this study was to understand the predominant experience of elderly people of aging. Hermeneutics phenomenology was used to collect data, and the van Manen's method was implemented to analyze those data. The required data was collected by having 10 deep semi-structured interviews with the elderly from Tehran, Mashhad and Gonabad– cities, Iran, and then was analyzed for the explanation of the notion of old-age.Three views that were extracted aging agony, lost independence and marginalization. These can reflect the negative viewpoints of the elderly about the aging phenomenon. The elderly’s aging description can provide experts and employees in various sanitary, training and social departments with invaluable data in order to decrease the current problems facing the elderly to plan for their future and better communicate with them, and finally enhance the available knowledge about elderly and their quality of life.http://jrh.gmu.ac.ir/article-1-1442-en.pdfAgedDignityOlder PeoplePhenomenology |
| spellingShingle | Leila Sadeghmoghadam Mahshid Foroughan Farahnaz Mohammadi Shahboulaghi Fazlollah Ahmadi Akram Farhadi Shima Nazari Masoumeh Amiri Delui Lost dignity: predominant experience of old age by the elderly Journal of Research & Health Aged Dignity Older People Phenomenology |
| title | Lost dignity: predominant experience of old age by the elderly |
| title_full | Lost dignity: predominant experience of old age by the elderly |
| title_fullStr | Lost dignity: predominant experience of old age by the elderly |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lost dignity: predominant experience of old age by the elderly |
| title_short | Lost dignity: predominant experience of old age by the elderly |
| title_sort | lost dignity predominant experience of old age by the elderly |
| topic | Aged Dignity Older People Phenomenology |
| url | http://jrh.gmu.ac.ir/article-1-1442-en.pdf |
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