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"Think positive and don't die alone" - Foreign-born, South Asian older adults' perceptions on healthy aging.
- Source :
- International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being; Dec2023, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p1-19, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- South Asians are the largest and fastest-growing racialized group in Canada, yet there are limited data on various aspects of health and well-being within this population. This includes the South Asian older adults' ethnoculturally informed perceptions of ageing. The study aimed to understand how social and cultural forces impact the meaning assigned to healthy ageing amongst older South Asians in Canada. We recruited with purposeful and snowball sampling strategies in Southern Ontario. We conducted in-depth focus group and individual interviews (n = 19) in five South Asian languages, employing a multilingual and cross-cultural qualitative approach. In our analysis, we identified three central themes: (a) taking care of body (b) taking care of mind and heart and (c) healthy ageing through the integration of mind and body. Our study demonstrates that older immigrants are a diverse and heterogeneous population and that their conception of healthy ageing is strongly influenced by their country of origin. This study also demonstrates how racialized foreign-born older adults might provide distinctive perspectives on the ageing process and on social theories of ageing due to their simultaneous immersion in and belonging to global majority and global minority cultures. This research also adds to the limited body of literature on the theories of ageing, despite migration trends, still has a white-centric lens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- POSITIVE psychology
CULTURE
IMMIGRANTS
ACTIVE aging
FOCUS groups
SOCIAL theory
SOUTH Asians
ATTITUDES toward aging
INTERVIEWING
ETHNOLOGY research
QUALITATIVE research
RESEARCH funding
DATA analysis software
EMPIRICAL research
JUDGMENT sampling
STATISTICAL sampling
THEMATIC analysis
HEALTH self-care
OLD age
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17482623
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174693304
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2023.2253576