Explorative healthy aging approaches fostering social innovation: thematizing life course narratives of older women participating in a documentary film

Riva, Susan Mossman; Verloo, Henk

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“…The Senior Living Lab's documentary film thematized life course narratives of older women [1,2]. The women's conversations within the Senior Living Lab, were a starting point that led to filmed interviews addressing the challenges inherent in aging while orienting the dialogue towards the capacity to overcome difficulties and the role of hope in learning lives [3,4]. The film establishes a relationship between hope and individual healthy aging strategies.…”

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“…Shared values in healthy aging emerged from the women's stories. The themes that were mentioned include, "transmission and the sharing of knowledge and life experiences, respect for personal rights and freedom to choose, and reciprocity understood as a healthy balance between giving and receiving, "The cycle of life that allows us to give back what we receive" [5]. These core components of healthy aging were voiced and shared along with messages of hope, giving testimony to the opportunities retirement has to offer in a community setting.…”

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Aging in Resilient Communities-An Alpine Case Study: The Senior Living Lab Experience

Riva¹

2018

J Aging Sci

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The Senior Living Lab led by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Western Switzerland, provides an interesting case study that sheds insight into user centered approaches to innovation in community healthcare platforms addressing aging. The Senior Living Lab was also an example of nursing leadership, focusing on social innovation from a perspective of care. The participative nature of the qualitative research methods in the field, allowed seniors to have a voice in the co-creation process, generating social innovation solutions within an interdisciplinary research framework. Through focus groups, World Café meetings, as well as a film event on hopeful, healthy aging, senior participant's views were valued. One fundamental message emerged from the dialogical space: seniors don't want to be stigmatized by a growing form of discrimination referred to as ageism. Synergies reinforced Alpine governance and wellness through collaborative continuums with communal authorities and regional stakeholders, applying participative research methods.

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Aging in Resilient Communities-An Alpine Case Study: The Senior Living Lab Experience

Riva¹

2018

J Aging Sci

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“…3 Much like Riva-Mossman and Verloo, the analysis by Smith-Cavros, Avoki-Wuaku, Wuaku and Bhullari endeavors to understand the social accounting practices of a population in order to make bottom up policy changes.…”

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Welcome to Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare

Bartesaghi¹

2017

Qual Res Med Healthc

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On behalf of the authors, the reviewers, the editorial staff and our wonderful Editorial and Advisory Boards I extend a warm welcome to our first issue of Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare (QRMH)! I am lucky to be working with so many great people, and dedicated to making this a great place to publish.With many qualitative research journals already on the academic scene, and a good amount of these in the areas of health communication, healthcare, and medicine a new journal is a risky proposition. As our aims and scope promise, it is nonetheless a vital and crucial undertaking. As the articles in this first issue demonstrate, QRMH is true to its promise of interdisciplinarity; four of its five pieces are collaborations by scholars sand practitioners in medicine, nursing, communication, biology, theology, international affairs and conflict resolution. And all of the articles raise complex queries, tell difficult stories or ask the complex and uncomfortable questions for which qualitative research is best equipped.As many of you already know, qualitative research is not for the faint of heart. It is reflexive, positioned and like life itself, often messy and focused not on producing easy answers but on the very process of questioning. It is, at best, acutely aware its ontological consequentiality. Unlike research studies under positivist or post-positivist auspices, true qualitative research does not separate the observer from the lived experience of those whom she observes.Rather, it is by understanding the ways in which our own research practices bring forth the very world in which we live that qualitative researchers have a stake in understanding the very reflexive dynamics of how we constitute the world makes us.Consider the traditional process of knowledge construction in medicine and healthcare and how, in these very social and human sciences, we unproblematically take notions of scientific evidence as detached from the very measurements, screenings, and processes of lived experience in which knowledge-making is situated. Data, findings, reports are always written in the third person omniscient language of science, concealing writers, bodies, lives. We try to fit ourselves into the spaces offered by questionnaires, rather than finding questionnaires designed to fit us.Though evidence-based has become a popular phrase, for example, it works by pronominal omission; and yet it is always evidence for someone, by someone, and in a particular context with very real and life changing consequences. By the same token, that of patient (including the popular patient-centered), disadvantage, vulnerable, and so on are constructs -that is, categories that create the very situations they purport to describe. By way of our research findings and discussions, these categories can either re-enter the world as natural, or we may use research as a process in which to examine the social dynamics of what it means for these terms to categorize and create what Wittgenstein called forms of life, that is, to describe, as ...

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Interweaving Narrative Methods Into a Mandala of Transformational Practices

Riva¹

2022

Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies

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Narrative therapy can be understood as part of a narrative continuum where generative story threads are interwoven into a mandala of transformational practices. Individual and social transformation is elicited by narrative practices that reinforce narrative coherency. Through engagement with narrative methods, phases of narrative practice and inquiry are analyzed, revealing the emergence of narrative concrescence within an integrated narrative framework. Autoethnography, narrative therapy, narrative mediation, narrative conflict resolution, and transformational learning using “transformagram portfolios” can be understood as connected storying practices contained in mediatorship. This holistic approach to narrative methods creates linkages that further the generative potential of narrative practices as illustrated in case studies. By reinforcing narrative coherency in the noosphere, “narrative truth” can be generated and used as a guiding force in a post-truth era.

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Explorative healthy aging approaches fostering social innovation: thematizing life course narratives of older women participating in a documentary film

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Aging in Resilient Communities-An Alpine Case Study: The Senior Living Lab Experience

Aging in Resilient Communities-An Alpine Case Study: The Senior Living Lab Experience

Welcome to Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare

Interweaving Narrative Methods Into a Mandala of Transformational Practices

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