在老年时想到未来的想法
Valerie Wright1, Melanie Lovatt2
1Modern Scottish History, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place EH8 9AG, United Kingdom.
Journal of aging studies
|November 28, 2024
概括
老年人往往专注于过去,忽视了未来的相关性. 这项研究揭示了老年人的各种未来前景,突出了对健康变化和护理需求的计划不情愿.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 时间社会学 时间社会学
- 叙事分析 叙事分析
背景情况:
- 关于老年人的传统观点强调过去,忽视了未来的相关性.
- 现有的文献没有充分探讨老年人如何概念化和叙述他们的未来.
- 这项研究解决了理解晚年生活中的未来方向的差距.
研究的目的:
- 分析老年人对未来的叙述.
- 发展对老年与未来时间之间的关系的概念理解.
- 探索老年人如何感知和参与他们未来的自我和环境.
主要方法:
- 来自英国大众观测项目的日记记录的二次分析 (1988).
- 对定性数据进行专题分析,重点关注时间方向.
- 利用关键的时间视角来解释发现.
主要成果:
- 确定了四个未来的方向:恐惧,时间过去了,一天一天,思考超越有限.
- 显示出人们普遍不愿为未来的身体/认知健康和护理需求做计划.
- 发现未来的概念化往往被视为不可预测的,与过去/现在交织在一起.
结论:
- 老年人的未来方向是复杂的,并受到时间流动性的感知的影响.
- 不愿意为未来的需求做计划的原因是认为未来是无法管理的.
- 需要更广泛的方式来想象和讨论未来在晚年生活.
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