STUDI FENOMENOLOGI : PENGALAMAN KESEPIAN PADA LANSIA YANG TINGGAL DIRUMAH SEORANG DIRI DI DESA TUNGGUL WULUNG - PANDAAN

Abstract

Loneliness experienced on the elderly bring meaning and different
expectations. Elderly sometimes not able to actively interact with their environment
and adapt more slowly because of the conditions they experience so that
researchers interested in using a qualitative approach to the design of
phenomenology. The study design used is qualitative interpretative
phenomenological approach . indepth interviews using semistructured questions
involving four elderly people who experience loneliness and in daily living at home
alone. Data were collected and analyzed using thematic analysis approach based
Braun & Clark. This study resulted in five themes namely the feeling of loneliness,
self-assessment, emotional, situational, quality of life, the pattern of life and views
on illness and death from the seventh Where the theme converging on the main
themes, namely the meaning of life alive. The results of the overall interview
participants showed one of things that support the achievement of the meaning of
life in the elderly living at home alone is a change in the spiritual aspect, in this
aspect there was an increase in integrated religion and belief in life where the
elderly increasingly mature in their religious life. Spiritual terms generally expect
condition,elderly healthy physical, longevity, zest for life, remain authoritative and
face death in tranquility with spiritual provisions that they have.