When leisure is a central value for elderly people: a reading from narrative research

Abstract

Through narrative research, this article analyses elderly people´s leisure in Spain, from the experiential paradigm and a ambination of sincronic and diachronic perspective, which seeks to know the evolution of leisure across lifespan and the impact of past leisure in the current leisure styles. The analysis of the particular case of a 71 years old woman, for whom leisure becomes a central element in her life after her widowhood, contributes to know the psychosocial factors and processes that make leisure a source of well-being and vital engagement among elderly people.