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dc.contributor.authorBjerkmo, Lena Yvonne
dc.contributor.authorHelgesen, Ann Karin
dc.contributor.authorBlix, Bodil Hansen
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-05T08:58:12Z
dc.date.available2023-04-05T08:58:12Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-10
dc.description.abstractBy inquiring into older adults' narrations about their lives in the present, past, and future, this study aims to learn more about home-dwelling older adults' lived experiences of being and becoming “frail”. This article is based on a dialogical narrative analysis of interviews with three home-dwelling older adults identified as frail by the home care services. We conducted a series of three interviews with each participant over a period of eight months. Our results demonstrate that while some older adults experience frailty as inevitable and irreversible, others experience it as a transition. Some narrated frailty as a comprehensive experience, while others' narratives were more situational and transitional. Being able to live at home was crucial and moving to a nursing home was associated with the risk of becoming frailer and the loss of valued relations to family and their home. Experiences of frailty were framed and shaped by the past, present, and future. Faith, fate, and previous capacities to overcome adversities were crucial in the older adults' narrations. Older adults' stories provide an opening to diverse and changing experiences of living with frailty. By telling stories about the past, present, and future, older adults can maintain identity, a sense of belonging, and balance in the midst of adversities. By engaging with older adults' stories, health and care professionals can support the older adult in the ongoing process of being and becoming ‘a frail older adult’.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBjerkmo, Helgesen, Blix. Being and becoming ‘a frail older adult’: Meaning-making and resistance through storytelling. Journal of Aging Studies. 2023en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2133045
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101128
dc.identifier.issn0890-4065
dc.identifier.issn1879-193X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/28937
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Aging Studies
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleBeing and becoming ‘a frail older adult’: Meaning-making and resistance through storytellingen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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