The timescapes of older adults living alone and receiving home care: An interview study.
J Aging Stud
; 68: 101212, 2024 Mar.
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ABSTRACT
In this study, we drew on Barbara Adam's (1998) timescape perspective and applied a timescape lens to our analysis of how nine older adults who live alone, receive home care and are considered by home care professionals to be frail, experience living (in) time. Over a period of eight months, we conducted three interviews with each of the nine participants. We analysed the data using reflexive thematic analysis and drew on timescapes to further interpret our preliminary analysis. Our results show that situated everyday time, place across time, and large-scale time interact in the framing and shaping of older adults' everyday lives. Older adults' embodied experiences of being of advanced age, living alone and receiving home care influenced their timescapes. We propose that paying attention to older adults' timescapes can enable home care professionals and other supporters to consider older adults' health, well-being, vulnerabilities and strengths from a broader perspective than the 'here and now' and thereby enhance the provision of person-centred care.
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Ambiente Domiciliar
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Serviços de Assistência Domiciliar
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Aged
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2024
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