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- Title
Gratitude and longing: Meanings of health in aging for Puerto Rican adults in the mainland.
- Authors
Todorova, Irina L. G.; Guzzardo, Mariana T.; Adams, Wallis E.; Falcón, Luis M.
- Abstract
Puerto Rican adults in the United States mainland live with socioeconomic and health disparities. To understand their contextual experience of aging, we interviewed participants in the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study. Through a Thematic Analysis we identify themes and tensions: normalization and acceptance of aging; gratitude; the importance of aging within social networks; longing to return to Puerto Rico at older age. We address the tensions between ‘acceptance’ and fatalismo as a cultural belief, and a function of structural barriers. The experience of aging is discussed in the context of Puerto Rico’s history and continued dependence on the United States.
- Subjects
PUERTO Rico; UNITED States; HISPANIC Americans; ACTION research; HEALTH attitudes; INTERVIEWING; SOCIAL networks; THEMATIC analysis; PRE-tests &; post-tests; ATTITUDES toward aging
- Publication
Journal of Health Psychology, 2015, Vol 20, Issue 12, p1602
- ISSN
1359-1053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1359105313519155