Betekenisgeving op hoge leeftijd: Een longitudinale benadering.

The proposed study will investigate how older adults establish meaning when confronted with stressful events inherent to late life and how specific religious, spiritual and secular factors influence this process. The project will clarify (a) whether religious, spiritual or secular meaning systems influence meaning making processes in old age, (b) how these dynamic processes develop over time and, (c) how specific aspects of the meaning system or of specific meaning making processes facilitate or inhibit optimal late life functioning. The study will focus on different aspects of late life functioning, namely physical, psychological and spiritual functioning. The study will focus on adults in a residential care setting.