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The Lived Experience Of Aging: Listening To The Oldest-Old, Julia A. Pusztai
The Lived Experience Of Aging: Listening To The Oldest-Old, Julia A. Pusztai
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
Although embraced as desirable by most, living into very old age is largely unexplored as a distinct season of life, with increased, varied, and cumulative changes during a unique time of vulnerability and frailty. The purpose of this study was to listen to the oldest-old, and to explore their lived experience of growing old. This hermeneutic phenomenology study examines the experience of finding meaning and living with losses and gains in advanced old age. This study design included three separate interviews one month apart with participants over 85 years of age. Purposive sampling resulted in 13 participants, 5 being male …