The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the lived experience of fall risk from a lifeworld perspective in elderly women with previous fragility fractures. Thirteen elderly women with a high risk of fall and fracture, aged 76-86, living in their own homes in rural areas, were recruited from a voluntary fracture prevention programme. All women had a history of fragility fractures and...

We investigated family members' lived experience of Parkinson's disease (PD) aiming to investigate opportunities for well-being. A lifeworld-led approach to healthcare was adopted. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to explore in-depth interviews with people living with PD and their partners. The analysis generated four themes: It's more than just an illness revealed the existent...

BACKGROUND In the United Kingdom, pre-registration nurse education relies on workplace mentors to support and assess practice learning. Despite research to clarify expectations and develop support structures, mentors nevertheless report being overwhelmed by the responsibility of mentoring alongside their clinical work. Understanding of their lived experience appears limited. OBJECTIVES The ai...

The image of the world is a set space-temporal and value-semantic chronotopic components. It functional system psychological adaptation to constant changes in human lifeworld. COVID-19 pandemic model severe lifeworld lifestyle. research objective was identify characteristics crisis. study conducted twice, i.e. before outbreak during period maximum restrictions, featured 92 people. transformed s...

Abstract This paper synthesizes Gramscian and Habermasian perspectives on new conditions of life hegemonic struggle that the postmodern initiated in closing decades 20th Century (Jameson, 1984). Drawing from Habermas, it discusses decline public sphere colonization lifeworlds advanced capitalism, and, focusing leisure as a bundle practices (Spracklen, 2009, 2015), explores implications these de...

We conducted a qualitative inquiry to describe the meanings of feeling well as experienced by women with Parkinson's disease. Nine women were interviewed and we analysed the interviews using a reflective lifeworld approach based on phenomenological epistemology. We present the analysis as five constituents: the body as unnoticed; being able to move on; feeling joy by being connected; finding pe...