Healthy Aging Research
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School of Health and Education, University of Skovde, 541 28 Skovde, Sweden

Biography

Irene Eriksson is a registered nurse with a post graduate diploma as a public health specialist in nursing, and a family nurse practitioner with a master of science in nursing. She earned her PhD in a Joint PhD Program in Nursing between University of Rhode Island, USA and University of Skövde, Sweden. Her research interest includes the health and well-being of older adults in various contexts, especially that of the home. It also encompasses common health problems associated with aging, such as long-term musculoskeletal pain. 

Publications

• Research   
  Life without professional work-perceptions about ones self, interpersonal relations and social life after retirement
  Author(s): Ann-Charlotte Dalheim-Englund, Gunilla Carlsson*, Maria Nystrom, Catharina Gillsjo, Irene Eriksson and Lina Palmer
  
  The aim of this study is to understand how healthy, older adults in Sweden perceive their life situation after retirement. The study is based on a lifeworld approach, and a phenomenographic method was used. Eighteen participants were interviewed, and data were analysed according to the phenomenographic principle of qualitatively different categories. Two categories were developed. The first category, “perceptions that draw attention inward, towards one’s self”, was further described in three subcategories: Sense of decreased status in society, the desire to keep aging at a distance, and contemplation of one’s own existence. The second category, “perceptions that draw attention outward, away from one’s self” was further described in the following four subcategories: caretaking of family members, involvement in social relationships, finding of d.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/har.2019.8.2

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