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

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.