L’expérience spirituelle des seniors pendant la pandémie du COVID-19 : Revue intégrative et analyse thématique de données qualitatives

Abstract

This article studies the ways the coronavirus pandemic impacts on the spirituality of seniors in Quebec. The methodological approach follows two stages: 1- a theoretical and systematized search in databases (integrative review); 2- a field approach, combining a meeting of senior experts, followed by a questionnaire. The results highlighted the recurrence of a feeling of loneliness and confrontation with the unknown, which resulted in a disoriented state of being that challenges the existential meaning. The elders responded to the unknown caused by the pandemic, by regaining control of their disoriented state through awareness-raising work, which led them to discern the importance of reworking in their lives the existential and spiritual level. As a result, a deployment of spiritualities occurs and institutional religion is replaced by intentional spiritualities.