Unfolding biographies-a participatory narrative study on how older adults with multiple sclerosis make sense of and manage their everyday lives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Today, public health research on later life, including the literature on aging with multiple sclerosis, is often centered on aging as a biological phenomenon. By applying a participatory narrative approach, this study conveys how studying biographical aging provides important insights into the elements of aging that people find relevant and meaningful. Based on narratives told by older adults living with multiple sclerosis, we explore how sensemaking unfolds and shapes the management of later life with a chronic and progressive disease.

Methods

Twenty-four older adults (aged 65 years or older) living with multiple sclerosis in Denmark were engaged in taking photographs of their everyday lives and unfold the stories framed in their photographs in subsequent narrati

SUBMITTER: Bergien SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10693063 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature