“We all need Purpose and Reason to be here.”: A Qualitative Investigation of howmembers of Alcoholics Anonymous with Long-term Recovery Experience Aging

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Table 1. Individual super-ordinate themes

Claudia	Andrew	Jack
Living in the present – an antidote to anxiety	Living in the present – an antidote to anxiety	Living in the present as an antidote to fear and anxiety
Acceptance as a key to emotional well-being	Accepting and coping with aging	Acceptance and resilience as coping mechanisms
Experiencing aging as a natural, temporal phenomenon	AA as a social and spiritual identity	Promoting well-being through self-worth and self-concept
The benefits of fellowship & intersubjective experience	The past: a reference point to emotional and spiritual growth	Fellowship and intersubjectivity
Living and coping with physical pain	Growth of self-worth through failure	A spiritual dimension
A spiritual dimension	The intersubjectivity of fellowship	–

Figure 1. Individual super-ordinate themes and higher order group concepts.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study, and also the interview schedule, are available on request from the corresponding author, (KM) at [email protected]. The data are not publicly available because they contain information that could compromise the privacy of research participants.