Healthy Aging Research
Open Access
ISSN: 2261-7434
+44-77-2385-9429
ISSN: 2261-7434
+44-77-2385-9429
Work Life and Social Welfare, Faculty of Caring Science, 501 90 Boras, Sweden
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