en وقار از دست رفته: تجربه غالب ادراک از پیری در سالمندان Health Protection مقاله اصيل پژوهشي Orginal Article <div style="text-align: justify;">Paying attention to the views of the elderly and identifying their understanding of old age can be great help for proper consideration about their needs and problems. The purpose of this study was to understand the predominant experience of elderly people of aging. Hermeneutics phenomenology was used to collect data, and the van Manen&#39;s method was implemented to analyze those data. The required data was collected by having 10 deep semi-structured interviews with the elderly from Tehran, Mashhad and Gonabad&ndash; cities, Iran, and then was analyzed for the explanation of the notion of old-age.Three views that were extracted aging agony, lost independence and marginalization. These can reflect the negative viewpoints of the elderly about the aging phenomenon. The elderly&rsquo;s aging description can provide experts and employees in various sanitary, training and social departments with invaluable data in order to decrease the current problems facing the elderly to plan for their future and better communicate with them, and finally enhance the available knowledge about elderly and their quality of life.</div> Aged, Dignity,Older People, Phenomenology 381 386 http://jrh.gmu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-891-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Leila Sadeghmoghadam لیلا صادق مقدم ls_moghadam@yahoo.com 100319475328460017125 100319475328460017125 Yes Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Department of Mental & Aging Nursing, School of Nursing, Gonabad University of Medical Science, Gonabad, Iran دانشگاه علوم پزشکی گناباد Mahshid Foroughan مهشید فروغان M_Foroughan@yahoo.com 100319475328460017126 100319475328460017126 No Department of Aging, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran گروه سالمندی دانشگاه علوم بهزیستی و توانبخشی Farahnaz Mohammadi Shahboulaghi فرحناز محمدی شاهبلاغی f.mohammadi@uswr.ac.ir 100319475328460017127 100319475328460017127 No Department of Nursing, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran گروه پرستاری دانشگاه علوم بهزیستی و توانبخشی Fazlollah Ahmadi فضل الله احمدی ahmadif@modares.ac.ir 100319475328460017128 100319475328460017128 No Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran گروه پرستاری دانشگاه تربیت مدرس Akram Farhadi اکرم فرهادی ak.farhadi@gmail.com 100319475328460017129 100319475328460017129 No Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran دانشکده پرستاری و مامایی بوشهر Shima Nazari شیما نظری Sh_nazari78@yahoo.com 100319475328460017130 100319475328460017130 No Department of Community and Geriatric Nursing School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. دانشکده پرستاری ومامایی تهران Masoumeh Amiri Delui معصومه امیری دلویی m_amiridelui@yahoo.com 100319475328460017131 100319475328460017131 No Department of Social Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Science, Gonabad, Iran دانشگاه علوم پزشکی گناباد