Journal article
A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Analysis of Aging with a Childhood Onset Disability
Health care for women international, Vol.26(8), pp.731-747
09/01/2005
DOI: 10.1080/07399330500179689
PMID: 16234214
Abstract
In this qualitative study, we combined multiple interviews, field notes, life history review charts, and demographic questions to explore the life course experiences of 25 women, ages 55 to 65 years, who developed impairments due to paralytic polio during childhood. Based on a hermeneutic phenomenological methodology using thematic analysis, multiple themes emerged that traced their lives from childhood to later adulthood. The women described how they pushed their bodies and dismissed their physical decline as long as possible. The women's early experiences combined with the culturally defined role expectations for women to influence their perceptions of how to react to changing physical abilities with age.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Analysis of Aging with a Childhood Onset Disability
- Creators
- Tracie C. Harrison - The University of Texas at AustinAlexa Stuifbergen - The University of Texas at Austin
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Health care for women international, Vol.26(8), pp.731-747
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- DOI
- 10.1080/07399330500179689
- PMID
- 16234214
- ISSN
- 0739-9332
- eISSN
- 1096-4665
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2005
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984696717902771
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