Promoting empowerment and self-care in older women through participatory action research: Analysis of the process of change.

Aim: To generate and understand the process of change in the empowerment of women from 60 to 80 years old through a Participatory Action Research.

Specific Aim: To analyse the women participants' experiences concerning empowerment and self-care.

Design: We use the Participatory Action Research approach (in its critical option) in the Socio-critical Paradigm and applying the Kemmis and McTaggart Model.

Participatory Action Research on empowerment in older women: A theoretical-methodological analysis.

This article aims to conceptually and methodologically analyse the use of Participatory Action Research (PAR), through field research, in order to increase knowledge about it, and to illustrate its strengths and weaknesses to encourage its use in Health Sciences. Within qualitative methodology, PAR can be used as a tool for the analysis of change and transformation, whose objective is the emancipation and liberation of people who find themselves in an oppressive social context. The assessment of this approach is based on field research with older women who sought to improve their self-care through empowerment.

[Active-Murcia program: secondary analysis, with a gender perspective, on the quality of life of participating women.].

Objective: Nowadays sedentarism has become a public health issue, as a matter of gender and age. Older women are more sedentary, which affects their Quality of life. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Activa-Murcia Program impact over the Quality of life in women participating in it.

Difficulties and motivations for physical exercise in women older than 65 years. A qualitative study.

Objective: to identify difficulties and motivations for the practice of physical exercise in women older than 65 years.

Method: qualitative study based on the phenomenological theory, with focus groups and in-depth interviews. The nursing staff selected 15 women by intentional sampling using the following criteria: age, time dedicated to physical exercise, independence, and absence of cognitive impairment and contraindication for this activity.