Older Women's Experiences with Multiple Health Conditions: Daily Challenges and Care Practices
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Guided by life-course theory and a trajectory model of chronic illness, we examined the health care practices and management strategies used by 17 older women with multiple chronic conditions. Qualitative analyses revealed that the women played an active role in shaping the course of their illness within their everyday lives. Pain and a decline in energy frequently interfered with completion of daily activities. To compensate, many women reduced and slowed down the pace of activities they performed while emphasizing the importance of maintaining independence and autonomy. Appreciative of support from family members, at times the women received more help and advice than they preferred.
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Undesirable physical and emotional symptoms and impaired physical functioning can directly prevent patients from carrying out normal daily activities, including tasks required to appropriately and successfully self-manage.
“As such, undesirable physical and emotional symptoms and impaired physical functioning can directly prevent patients from carrying out normal daily activities, including tasks required to appropriately and successfully self-manage [139–141].”
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- Authors
- Roberto, K. A., Gigliotti, C. M., & Husser, E. K.
- Affiliations
- Virginia Tech (US)
- Venue
- Health Care for Women International
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2005-09
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 672-692
- ISSN
- 0739-9332 (ISSN-L)
- 1096-4665
- OpenAlex
- W2011235024
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 6 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 2.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Health Care For Women International (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Aging, Health, and Disability
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Keywords
- older women, multimorbidity, self-management, activities of daily living, pain, autonomy and independence, family support, life course perspective, care practices
- MeSH terms
- Activities of Daily Living, Adaptation, Psychological, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Chronic Disease, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Pain, Surveys and Questionnaires, Rural Population, Self Care, Self Concept, Social Support, Social Values, Virginia, Women's Health, Focus Groups, Personal Autonomy, Pain Management
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