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- Old age often involves reflecting on life experiences, including past abuse, and finding meaning in them, with forgiveness being particularly beneficial for older adults.
- A study analyzed interviews with 78 older women who survived abuse to explore how forgiveness plays a role in their aging process.
- The findings reveal that while forgiveness has positive effects, it isn’t always a straightforward or desired path, highlighting complexities beyond just "forgiveness" and "unforgiveness."
Article Abstract
Old age is characterized by reflection and a retrospective examination of the multiple meanings of various life experiences, including lifelong abuse. Forgiveness is found to have a salutary effect, especially for older adults. To understand the place and role of forgiveness in the reflective process during aging, we performed a secondary analysis of in-depth, semi-structured interviews ( = 78) with older women survivors of abuse. Inductive thematic analysis was based on concepts developed deductively from the literature review. The findings include three main themes: (1) (2) and (3) . Despite the known salutary effect of forgiveness, we must consider that this is not a universally desirable process. We included the dimension of forgiveness in the study of abuse throughout the older person's life course and identified further complexities in addition to the "forgiveness"/"unforgiveness."
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