Doświadczanie resilience w narracyjnej biografii seniorów Dziennego Domu Pomocy w Gdańsku
The experience of resilience in narrative biography in Daily Care Home in Gdansk

Summary/Abstract: The narratives included in this article were collected within the framework of the project „We Support Senior Citizens in the Local Environment – Culture as an Element of the Identity of the Elderly”, implemented in the Daily Care Home of the Local Support Center in Gdansk in 2016. They are the result of the author’s personal observations of seniors being in need of telling their past, sharing it, and at the same time sorting it out, and reconciling themselves with the difficult moments in their lives. There is also a need for reflection on one’s past, which gives power and strength to go on in life. In other words, who and/or what makes you want to live and even enjoy life? What is resilience in my life? Remaining impressed by the power of their stories, the stories of people who in the moments of difficulty and pain were able to say: ‘I want to live’, and asking them to reflect on the past, I have come to realise what it is that determines the sources to keep the resilience described below and the ability to regenerate.

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