Introduction: Through sense of coherence, it can be justified why someone can go through a high level of stress and stay healthy.
Aim: Current research was done to edit the pattern of self-cohesion promotion during old age.
Methods: The current research was of a qualitative type with the method of grand theory. The research population was all elderly people between 60 and 65 years old a metaphorical network member (Sen Kamal), and in 2022/10 people were selected by targeted sampling method. The data was collected with semi-structured interviews and analyzed in three stages open, selective, and central coding.
Results: After reviewing and analyzing the data, 97 themes, 17 subcategories, and 4 main categories were identified. The main categories include self-efficacy characteristics (ability and capability to use available resources, having self-efficacy characteristics), family roles and values (health of the origin family, personal values, spiritual values, personal and social interests), Intervening conditions including lifestyle(healthy lifestyle, economic stability), and the strategic factors were solution-oriented and emotion-oriented (self-management, solving problems, establishing effective relationships, personal growth and development, purposefulness in life, self-awareness, management in life, integrating experiences, social participation).
Conclusion: The results of the present study showed the feeling of coherence creates a general orientation based on generalized self-confidence in elders when they can respond to the structured inner and outer stimuli, and make their lives predictable and meaningful with their experiences and available resources. The self-coherence pattern can provide a platform for social plans policy for elders' lives, according to -the Islamic lifestyle so they can accept this era’s needs as a manageable challenge and meet these needs with achieved abilities.
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