How do Portuguese retirees feel about the transition to retirement?

• Autor(a) principal: Loureiro, Helena Maria Almeida Macedo
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Camarneiro, Ana Paula Forte, Silva, Margarida Alexandra Nunes Carramanho Gomes Martins Moreira da
• Tipo de documento: Livro
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.esenfc.pt/?url=df2CpOOt
• topic: retirement; health; Families

Background: REATIVA project, funded by Foundation for Science and Technology aims to build a health intervention program that promotes self-efficacy, self-esteem and family resilience in the transition process which is retirement. The first stage of this project aims to understand how the newly retired Portuguese perceive this transition. Objectives: Understand how the Portuguese retirees feel about the experience of transition to retirement and to understand how these feelings interfere in the process of adaptation to retirement. Methodology: Qualitative and descriptive-exploratory study, based on 18 focus group whose participants fitted in to functional health units of Regional Health Centre of Portugal and were retired for 5 years or less. The ethical and formal procedures inherent in research were respected and a content analysis using QRS International NVivo10® program was held. Results: The Portuguese retirees experience different feelings about their transition to retirement. Both feelings of satisfaction and dissatisfaction emerged in the speeches of the participants, concerning different aspects of their lives. The dissatisfaction feelings were the most expressed and were related with Loss, Outrage, Regret, Loneliness, Disappointed, Nostalgia, and Disorientation. Conclusions: Retirement is a transition process that originates feelings among the retirees. Those feelings can lead to an ageing process that does not lead to the well-being of the individuals and their families. So, it is important to promote health among these group of individuals and also their families.