Aging Alone in a Continuous Traumatic Situation: External Coping Resources.

Exposure to a persistent terrorist threat constitutes a continuous traumatic situation (CTS) that can severely impact one's mental and physical health. For older adults living in CTS, this risk is compounded by the challenges of aging. This vulnerability is significantly heightened for older adults living alone in CTS, who typically experience increased social isolation and loneliness.

Cumulative trauma: The intersection between continuous security threats and the COVID-19 pandemic among Israeli older adults.

Introduction: Research on cumulative traumatic events and their consequences for older adults have yielded inconclusive findings, especially when the traumatic events are different types of events and happen simultaneously.

Objective: To explore older adults' perceptions of cumulative trauma, specifically exposure to continuous security threats via living in a war zone and COVID-19.

Method: Seventeen in-depth, open-ended, and semistructured interviews were conducted with older adults living near Israel's border with Gaza.

The second empty nest: The lived experience of older women whose intensive 'grandmotherhood' has ended.

Grandmothers are the major nonparental unpaid source of childcare in Western societies. Intensive caring for grandchildren may pose challenges to some grandmothers, but also offers an opportunity to refill the 'empty nest' often experienced in mid-life. When grandmothers' intensive involvement in their grandchildren's care decreases significantly or ceases altogether, they may experience a recurrence of the empty nest syndrome.

Dignity in Action in the Home Hospice: The Narrative Selection of a Multidisciplinary Staff.

Home hospice (HH) is a palliative care framework that is becoming more and more common in Western countries. HH staff face unique challenges, resulting mainly from their multiple clients and the provision of care in a private territory. Despite the recognized role of professionals in preserving end-of-life (EOL) dignity, how HH staff conceive of EOL dignity has remained unexplored.

Alone in the shadow of terror: Strategies and internal resources of older adults living alone in a continuous traumatic situation.

Continuous traumatic situations (CTS) caused by prolonged exposure to terrorist threat can harm individuals' mental and physical health. For older adults living alone in CTS, this risk joins the challenges of aging and loneliness, creating a triple vulnerability. No previous research has explored this particular vulnerability and specifically addressed the coping strategies and internal resources used by older adults to manage these stressful circumstances.

Three strategies for doing narrative resistance: Navigating between master narratives.

Narrative psychology emphasizes the role of culture in shaping identities. Less attention has been paid to how individuals resist culture. Specifically, two aspects have remained understudied: the diverse forms of doing narrative resistance and the navigation between different types of master narratives involved in the process.

Narrative research on mental health recovery: two sister paradigms.

Background: Despite the breadth of narrative studies on individuals with severe mental illness, the suitability of narrative inquiry to exploring mental health recovery (MHR) has not been examined.

Aims: (1) Examining the appropriateness of narrative inquiry to studying MHR; (2) assessing the extent to which narrative studies on MHR conform to the unique features of narrative research, as a distinctive form of qualitative inquiry.

Methods: Review of empirical, theoretical and methodological literature on recovery and narrative inquiry.