The meaning of living with severe chronic heart failure as narrated by elderly people

Ekman, Inger, 1952 (author): Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för omvårdnad,Institute of Nursing,Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå; Department of Nursing, University of Göteborg, Göteborg

Ehnfors, Margareta, 1941- (author): Örebro universitet,Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och omsorg

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2013-03-20
2000
English.
In: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. - Oslo, Norway : Taylor & Francis. - 0283-9318 .- 1471-6712. ; 14:2, s. 130-6

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Abstract Subject headings

The meaning of elderly patients' experiences of living with chronic heart failure was studied. Narrative interviews were analysed using a phenomenological hermeneutic approach. 'Feeling imprisoned in illness' and 'feeling free despite illness' constituted the themes. These themes were interpreted as describing variations in awareness of the relationship between the self and the body. In theme 'feeling imprisoned in illness' the body's illness and disability hindered the subjects from being themselves. In the theme 'feeling free despite illness' the disabled body was not experienced as limiting, but rather as a part of the self. The patients' understanding of the illness must be interpreted by the caregiver, who also needs to be aware of different modes of communicating feeling about the illness.

By the author/editor: Ekman, Inger, 19 ...; Ehnfors, Margare ...; Norberg, Astrid

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MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES: MEDICAL AND HEAL ...; and Health Sciences; and Nursing

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