Loneliness among elderly women: A literature review
Karki, Anita (2009)
Karki, Anita
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2009
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-200903171724
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-200903171724
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Loneliness among elderly women: a literature review
The loneliness project belongs to the nation-wide life into year´s project of the Espoo city. The subject about loneliness among elderly women has been considered as one of the health problems in this present context. There is limited number of researches concerning this topic. However, it has been considered as one of the main health influencing predictor among elderly women. Even though limited studies have shown the influencing and other related factors that contribute to the loneliness among elderly women both in developed and developing countries.
The purpose of the study was to describe the experiences of loneliness among elderly women and influencing factors on loneliness among them. The literature review illustrates the characteristics and influencing factors of loneliness among women. The data was analyzed with qualitative content analysis. In the course of qualitative content analysis, the content of influencing factors of loneliness among women was categorized into five subsections. They were (1) widowed, (2) health status, (3) immigrants, (4) lifelong singlehood and (5) social loneliness.
The findings from this study proved that loneliness as a common and distressing experience among women remained a topic rarely discussed. In future this study supports to understand and to recognize the factors that influence women loneliness.
The loneliness project belongs to the nation-wide life into year´s project of the Espoo city. The subject about loneliness among elderly women has been considered as one of the health problems in this present context. There is limited number of researches concerning this topic. However, it has been considered as one of the main health influencing predictor among elderly women. Even though limited studies have shown the influencing and other related factors that contribute to the loneliness among elderly women both in developed and developing countries.
The purpose of the study was to describe the experiences of loneliness among elderly women and influencing factors on loneliness among them. The literature review illustrates the characteristics and influencing factors of loneliness among women. The data was analyzed with qualitative content analysis. In the course of qualitative content analysis, the content of influencing factors of loneliness among women was categorized into five subsections. They were (1) widowed, (2) health status, (3) immigrants, (4) lifelong singlehood and (5) social loneliness.
The findings from this study proved that loneliness as a common and distressing experience among women remained a topic rarely discussed. In future this study supports to understand and to recognize the factors that influence women loneliness.