title: Narratives of aging in intimate partner violence: the double lens of violence and old age.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  With the increase in life expectancy, couples living in intimate partner violence are aging together. The aim of this article is to explore the constructions of aging in intimate partner violence as narratives of couplehood or narratives of old age.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty individual in-depth interviews with 15 older Israeli couples were tape-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analyzed using a narrative approach.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three main domains emerged from the data: health issue narratives, loneliness narratives and relationships with adult offspring narratives. Each of the narratives that emerged from the data analysis consists of a narrative of old age constructing IPV and a narrative of IPV constructing old age.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Conflictual couplehood dynamics, such as intimate partner violence in old age, is not one-dimensional, but is diverse and complex and this should be taken into consideration.
authors.affiliation: University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel. twinters@research.haifa.ac.il
authors.forename: Tova
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Band-Winterstein
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D032721:Adult Children / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology; D004243:Divorce / Q000523:psychology; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D007557:Israel; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008132:Loneliness; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012649:Self Concept; D012803:Sick Role; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology*