The disaster flood experience: Older people's poetic voices of resilience.

摘要: This paper explores the experiences of older community-dwelling Australians evacuated from their homes during 2011 and 2013 Queensland floods, applying novel creative methodology poetic inquiry as an analysis interpretative tool. As well exploring how adults managed a natural disaster, documents process potential in gerontological research. The first second poems highlight different social resources people have to draw on lives, especially crisis. Poem 1 ("Nobody came help me") illustrates one resident felt all alone flood, whereas 2 ("They everywhere"), 3 ("The Girls") 5 ("Man Blue Shirt") shows supported--from both family wider community--other residents felt. 4 ("I can't swim") highlights participant's fear water rises. To date, few studies explicitly explored adult's disaster experience, with this utilise lens. We argue that presentation enhances understanding residents' unique may better engage audience policy-makers, practitioners, general community themselves discussion about, reflection on, impact experience disasters.