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Older Adults’ Experiences of Being on a Senior Summer Camp
Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4276-2041
University Health Care Research Center, Örebro University.
University Health Care Research Center, Örebro University.
2021 (English)In: The 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association "Sociological knowledges for alternative futures", Barcelona, 2021Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Action is being taken across Europe to address social isolation and loneliness among older adults. More and more municipalities in Sweden are now arranging, senior summer camps to create a place where older adults can meet and break their social isolation. Building on a larger project evaluating a senior summer camp for older adults in the summer of 2017 this presentation focusses on how the older adults experienced their stay at a senior summer camp. A qualitative method with a phenomenographic approach was chosen to explore the qualitative variations in the older adult’s experience of staying at a senior summer camp. Three descriptive categories evolved relating to how the participant experienced the senior summer camp. The descriptive categories were “A pleasant environment to be in”, “Something to do for all” and “Brake once loneliness”. Findings from this study implies that just getting away, not having to cook, seeing, and experiencing something else and having company when eating food or doing activities meant a lot to the participants who experience loneliness in different ways. Knowing that other nice persons where lonely made the participants at the senior summer camp realize that loneliness was not due to themselves.

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Barcelona, 2021.
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Social Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-180170OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-180170DiVA, id: diva2:1601759
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The 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association
Available from: 2021-10-10 Created: 2021-10-10 Last updated: 2021-10-10

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