Table 2.
Garden Vistas: exercise experience and socialization.
Sample themes and quotations | Code exemplar | Categories | |
We can tell you about our exercise but not about ourselves | |||
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We’re doing balancing exercises that are helping us a lot, my balance seems to be getting better. | Balance exercise | Exercise types |
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The property that we live at we have a class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday where we do core strengthening exercises. | Core exercises for some | “The property that we live at”—not called a home |
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We compare our steps: mall walk and garage walk. | Some talk about counting steps | Some conversation |
Lack of socialization contributes to depression | |||
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There’s not much socializing, we should repeat the program. | Missing socialization | Lack of socialization |
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Maybe the building as a whole can socialize. | Possible solution to no socialization | Lack of socialization |
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I fight depression by getting dressed and going anyplace. | Have to fight depression | Depression |
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You’re gonna laugh, I make my bed. Then you don’t get back in it. | Make self get up | Depression |
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I think it’s just getting together as a group and you know socializing and doing these exercises and having fun doing it together. | What I’d like to see: having fun together | Need more socialization |