Experienced health in older women with rheumatoid arthritis |
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Authors: | Lyyra Tiina-Mari Heikkinen Riitta-Liisa |
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Institution: | Department of Health Sciences, Finnish Centre for Interdisciplinary Gerontology, University of Jyv?skyl?, Finland. tilyyra@sport.jyu.fi |
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Abstract: | This study explored how older women with chronic illness and disability experience their own health. Data were collected in in-depth interviews with ten older women with rheumatoid arthritis. Data analysis and interpretation was carried out within a phenomenological- hermeneutic frame of understanding, which revealed five major themes: health as coping with everyday life, health as freedom, health as absence of inconvenience, health as togetherness and health as mental well-being. For older people with chronic illness and disability, good health found expression in general well-being. It was perceived as a state of equilibrium that the respondents sought to maintain through their own active choices. |
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