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“IT'S GOING TO BE A NEW NORMAL”: OLDER ADULTS' FUTURE PERCEPTIONS DURING COVID-19
This study explores older adults’ perceptions of the future related to COVID-19. Participants (N=76) of a larger study aged 70-97 were asked four times throughout the first year of the pandemic when they thought life would return to normal. Their open-ended responses were coded, and themes were iden...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9766018/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.896 |
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author | Van Vleet, Bryce Fuller, Heather Hofmann, Brittany Huseth-Zosel, Andrea |
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description | This study explores older adults’ perceptions of the future related to COVID-19. Participants (N=76) of a larger study aged 70-97 were asked four times throughout the first year of the pandemic when they thought life would return to normal. Their open-ended responses were coded, and themes were identified at each timepoint. A resilient future perspective was identified at each timepoint; themes of a negative or unstable view of the future emerged over time. Additionally, responses were quantified into a 5-point scale for perceived timescale of a return to normal (5 = very long time) and attitude towards the future (5 = very positive). Repeated measures ANOVA revealed that perceived time to normal increased between the beginning and six months into the pandemic, then decreased by 12 months. Attitudes towards the future became more positive over time. These findings indicated that older adults were largely resilient, if uncertain, about the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-97660182022-12-20 “IT'S GOING TO BE A NEW NORMAL”: OLDER ADULTS' FUTURE PERCEPTIONS DURING COVID-19 Van Vleet, Bryce Fuller, Heather Hofmann, Brittany Huseth-Zosel, Andrea Innov Aging Abstracts This study explores older adults’ perceptions of the future related to COVID-19. Participants (N=76) of a larger study aged 70-97 were asked four times throughout the first year of the pandemic when they thought life would return to normal. Their open-ended responses were coded, and themes were identified at each timepoint. A resilient future perspective was identified at each timepoint; themes of a negative or unstable view of the future emerged over time. Additionally, responses were quantified into a 5-point scale for perceived timescale of a return to normal (5 = very long time) and attitude towards the future (5 = very positive). Repeated measures ANOVA revealed that perceived time to normal increased between the beginning and six months into the pandemic, then decreased by 12 months. Attitudes towards the future became more positive over time. These findings indicated that older adults were largely resilient, if uncertain, about the future. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9766018/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.896 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Van Vleet, Bryce Fuller, Heather Hofmann, Brittany Huseth-Zosel, Andrea “IT'S GOING TO BE A NEW NORMAL”: OLDER ADULTS' FUTURE PERCEPTIONS DURING COVID-19 |
title | “IT'S GOING TO BE A NEW NORMAL”: OLDER ADULTS' FUTURE PERCEPTIONS DURING COVID-19 |
title_full | “IT'S GOING TO BE A NEW NORMAL”: OLDER ADULTS' FUTURE PERCEPTIONS DURING COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | “IT'S GOING TO BE A NEW NORMAL”: OLDER ADULTS' FUTURE PERCEPTIONS DURING COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | “IT'S GOING TO BE A NEW NORMAL”: OLDER ADULTS' FUTURE PERCEPTIONS DURING COVID-19 |
title_short | “IT'S GOING TO BE A NEW NORMAL”: OLDER ADULTS' FUTURE PERCEPTIONS DURING COVID-19 |
title_sort | “it's going to be a new normal”: older adults' future perceptions during covid-19 |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9766018/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.896 |
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