Investigating the lived perception of the elderly about physical health: aphenomenological study

The changes made during old age sometimes lead to severe physical and mental deficiencies and todisability and reduced ability to deal with difficulties and common events. Psychological and physicaldisorders in the elderly are high due to various social exclusions, low quality of life, cognitive disorders,physical disability and physical disorders. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the livedperception of the elderly about physical health: a phenomenological study.Method:The method of the present study is qualitative, phenomenological. The study population is all elderlypeople of Khorram Abad city in ۲۰۱۹. The sampling method is "targeted". In order to collect data, "indepthindividual interview" was used. Data coding, recorded interviews, implementation, classification,clustering and organization were used in this study. Then, using the method of thematic analysis, the datacollected based on the questions and objectives of the research, were categorized and interpreted in relationto each other, and based on that, they were divided into main and secondary contents related to the physicaland mental health of the elderly. It was found.Results:In the data analysis and presentation of the findings, it was observed that the physical health of the elderlybased on their perception, two main dimensions were extracted: physical physical, functional physical.These dimensions were extracted from seventeen main themes, which were identified for the physicalcomponent of "self-care ability, not having a chronic disease, and meeting nutritional and medical needs".In the functional physical component, these themes are "having stable relationships with others and havingfree time".Conclusion:The results show that paying attention to the social interactions of the elderly plays an important role intheir physical health, because by creating platforms for their social participation, it increases their physicalstrength, as well as their sense of effectiveness, usefulness and, as a result, satisfaction with their lives.strengthens

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Elderly ، Physical Health ، Phenomenology