ArticleInternational journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being2023
Perspectives on existential loneliness. Narrations by older people in different care contexts.
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- Loneliness among adults at the end of life: A systematic review of prevalence and correlates.Palliative medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Ignoring the Older Person's Voice: Dignity, Ageism, and Epistemic Injustice in Geriatric Nursing Practice-A Nursing-Oriented Conceptual Review and Practice Framework.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Existential suffering at the end of life in long-term care: A critical essay on recognition, dignity, and witness.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- A Phenomenological Study of Older Individuals' Experiences of Safety at Home.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2025Article
- Older persons making a life closure: experiences of loneliness in an academic nursing home - a phenomenological qualitative interview study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024Article
- The use of home care as relational work: outlines for a research programme.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024Article
- Older people's experience and related factors while receiving home-based long-term care services: a qualitative study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- A Qualitative Study to Explore the Life Experiences of Older Adults in Oman.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
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Abstract
The aim was to explore existential loneliness in different long-term care contexts as narrated by older people. A qualitative secondary analysis was performed of 22 interviews with older people in residential care, home care, and specialized palliative care. The analysis started with naive reading of interviews from each care context. As these readings showed similarity with Eriksson's theory of the suffering human being, the three different concepts of suffering were used as an analytic grid. Our result indicates that suffering and existential loneliness are interrelated for frail older people. Some situations and circumstances that trigger existential loneliness are the same in the three care contexts while others differ. In residential and home care, unnecessary waiting, not feeling at home and not being encountered with respect and dignity can trigger existential loneliness while seeing and hearing others suffering can give rise to existential loneliness in residential care. In specialized palliative care, feelings of guilt and remorse are prominent in relation to existential loneliness. In conclusion, different healthcare contexts have various conditions for providing care that meet the existential needs of older people. Hopefully our results will be used as a basis for discussions in multi-professional teams and among managers.
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