title: Aging in the Shadow of Violence: A Phenomenological Conceptual Framework for Understanding Elderly Women Who Experienced Lifelong IPV.
abstract: This article suggests a heuristic framework for understanding elderly women's "lived experience" of lifelong intimate partner violence (IPV). This framework is based on the phenomenological qualitative studies of 31 women, aged 60-83, using a semistructured interview guide. From the results, a matrix emerged built on two axes. The first axis consists of three phenomenological dimensions: suffering, a "ticking clock," and life wisdom. The second axis consists of four themes that emerged from the content analysis: loneliness, regret, being in a state of waiting, and being a living monument to perpetual victimhood. The practical implications of these phenomenological findings are then discussed.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Gerontology , University of Haifa , Mt. Carmel, Haifa , Israel.
authors.forename: Tova
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Band-Winterstein
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D004552:Elder Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D008132:Loneliness / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012747:Sexual Partners / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology
keywords: intimate partner violence; older women; phenomenology; qualitative research