Weathering the Storm, Dancing in the Rain: A Phenomenological Study of Temporal Adaptations of Older Adults in Senior Living Facilities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the ebb and flow of temporal adaptations in senior living facilities, older adults live under the silent shadow of mortality, an ever-present reminder that shapes their perception of time and existence. This study explored older adults’ lived experiences and temporal adaptations as they transitioned into and through different stages of their stay in senior living facilities. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 28 older adults in six senior living facilities. The Modified Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method was utilized to analyze the data following Moustakas’ transcendental phenomenology. Five themes emerged: displacement and disorientation; resilience and adaptation; cultural norms and societal expectations; temporal reflections and memory; and mortality’s silent shadow. The study provides insights and implications for policy and practice in creating senior living facilities, caregivers, and healthcare practitioners. It also provides an in-depth understanding of aging, health, leisure, and trauma, contributing to the broader discourse on inclusion and understanding in this context.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".