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. 2025 Jun 20;78(2):e20240387.
doi: 10.1590/0034-7167-2024-0387. eCollection 2025.

Lifestyle changes after retirement: a Grounded Theory

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Sonia Silva Marcon  1 , Verônica Francisqueti Marquete  2 , Thiago Privado da Silva  3 , Mayckel da Silva Barreto  1 , Maria do Carmo Fernandez Lourenço Haddad  1 , Helena Maria Almeida Macedo Loureiro  4 , Vitoria Vasconcelos Logullo  1 , Sueli Mutsumi Tsukuda Ichisato  1
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Lifestyle changes after retirement: a Grounded Theory

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Sonia Silva Marcon et al. Rev Bras Enferm. .

Abstract
in English, Spanish

Objective: to understand the changes that occur in professors' lifestyle after retirement with regard to self-care.

Methods: qualitative research that used Symbolic Interactionism as a theoretical framework and Grounded Theory, a constructivist approach, as a methodological framework. Data were collected in 2022, through remote interviews with 18 professors from a public university in northwestern Paraná.

Results: with retirement, professors have greater availability and flexibility in their schedules, favoring positive changes in lifestyle, with greater appreciation of self-care actions, such as physical exercise and healthy eating, taking care of appearance, stimulating memory, a more active social life and adopting hobbies, expressed in the category "Enjoying retirement and taking up new activities".

Final considerations: retired professors, influenced by their social interactions with friends, family, healthcare professionals and co-workers throughout their lives, at this particular stage, tend to value self-care more.

Objetivo:: comprender los cambios ocurridos en el estilo de vida luego del retiro de profesores universitarios en términos de autocuidado.

Métodos:: investigación cualitativa que utilizó como marco teórico el Interaccionismo Simbólico y, como marco metodológico, la Teoría Fundamentada, de vertiente constructivista. Los datos fueron recolectados en 2022, a través de entrevistas remotas a 18 profesores de una universidad pública del noroeste de Paraná.

Resultados:: con la jubilación los docentes tienen mayor disponibilidad y flexibilidad en sus horarios, favoreciendo cambios positivos en el estilo de vida, con mayor valorización de acciones de autocuidado, como ejercicio físico y alimentación saludable, cuidado de la apariencia, estimulación de la memoria, vida social más activa y adopción de hobbies, expresados en la categoría “Disfrutar del retiro y realizar nuevas actividades”.

Consideraciones finales:: los docentes jubilados, debido a la influencia de sus interacciones sociales con amigos, familiares, profesionales de la salud y compañeros de trabajo a lo largo de su vida, en esta etapa en particular, tienden a valorar más el autocuidado.

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Figure 1. Diagram of the category “Enjoying retirement” and its subcategories. Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, 2024
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Figura 1. Diagrama da categoria “Desfrutando da aposentadoria” e suas subcategorias. Maringá, Paraná, Brasil, 2024
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