ences of coping with the Covid-19 pandemic and ways to deal with it

Aging naturally causes multidimensional physical, psychological and social changes in individuals. At the same time, the elderly are more vulnerable in the area of physical and mental health, for whom there is a high risk of Covid19 disease. The aim of this study is to study the life experience of old people about how they deal with the condition of Corona virus. The study population was those who went to day care centers for the elderly in Yazd. In this study, unstructured interviews were conducted with 12 elderly people and studied by phenomenological method. to answer to two research questions examining the living experience of the elderly from the epidemic conditions and methods of dealing with it, and with the Colaizzi seven-step analysis method, the elderly reported experiences such as individual and interpersonal concerns and positive and negative consequences of epidemic conditions for intrapersonal and interpersonal changes as the answer of first question. “various strategies in four levels of spiritual and religious measures, individual health-oriented measures, dealing with interpersonal conditions and dealing with peripheral facilities against Corona virus pandemic were adopted in order to pass the harmful condition “ participants answered. Despite what was thought and emphasized by the media about the vulnerability of the elderly to the epidemic, the results of the study showed that the elderly did not view this event as an unresolved crisis due to their maturity and sufficient experience and passed it in a consistent and successful manner.