'It May Be a Bit Uncertain But It's Never Boring': Thematic Analysis of a Blog About Engaging With Aging
| Autor: | Janet Primomo, Shumenghui Zhai, Basia Belza, Boeun Kim, Yan Su, Christina E. Miyawaki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Aging
media_common.quotation_subject education Applied psychology Gerontological nursing Affect (psychology) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health care Humans Narrative 030212 general & internal medicine skin and connective tissue diseases General Nursing media_common 030504 nursing business.industry Perspective (graphical) Uncertainty Cognition Feeling sense organs Thematic analysis 0305 other medical science business Psychology Gerontology Social Media |
| Zdroj: | Journal of gerontological nursing. 45(12) |
| ISSN: | 0098-9134 |
| Popis: | Online blogs about healthy aging written by health care professionals and others are increasing. The purpose of the current study was to analyze a first-person narrative blog about engaging with aging (EWA), with a goal of better understanding the process used to manage daily life and inform healthy aging for older adults. Using a thematic analysis approach, 67 blog posts written by a nonagenarian, retired nursing professor were analyzed. Emergent themes revealed the identification of age-related changes (e.g., physical, cognitive, functional, social, societal, psychological), characteristics of the age-related changes process, responses to age-related changes (e.g., feelings, attitudes), approaches and strategies to addressing age-related changes (i.e., the use of internal and external resources), and the outcomes of the approaches. The EWA blog posts help understand the aging experience from the perspective of an older adult, especially functional changes and how they affect daily life, as well as strategies used to adapt to changes. [ Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 45 (12), 21–27.] |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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