STUDY PROTOCOL article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Aging and Public Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1466678
Profiles and expecta0ons of seniors to achieve successful re0rement. The PEPE cohort study
Provisionally accepted
Celia Alvarez-Bueno
Marta Carolina Ruiz-Grao*
Maribel Lucerón Lucas-Torres
María López-GonzálezPatricia Lorenzo-García
Estela Jiménez LópezBeatriz Rodríguez-Martin- University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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Introduc0on: Despite the acceptance that reGrement is not a uniform process and that it is marked by individual factors, and a^er iniGaGves such as the Decade of Healthy Aging promoted by the UN to consider older people as the central focus of all acGons aimed at this group, the point of view of older people on this key point of life has hardly been addressed.The PEPE cohort study is a prospecGve, observaGonal, longitudinal study with a mixed design. This study aims to idenGfy, from a qualitaGve approach, the needs and demands of early reGrees and recent reGrees in reGrement preparaGon intervenGons and to determine their percepGons of the factors influencing successful reGrement. In addiGon, from a qualitaGve approach, it aims to idenGfy profiles of reGrees on the basis of physical, mental, social, and financial domains and to determine the prevalence of the different reGrement profiles.The qualitaGve study will be analysed following Giorgi's phenomenology approach and triangulated by three researchers following Guba and Lincoln's reliability criteria. The quanGtaGve study will involve 412 persons aged 60 years or older of both genders who are going to reGre in the next six months or who have reGred in the last 12 months in the provinces of Cuenca, Albacete, and Toledo (Spain).Ethics and dissemina0on: Ethical approval was obtained from the Clinical Research Ethics Commigee of the 'Virgen de la Luz' Hospital (registraGon number: 2022/PI2422). The findings will be reported to (1) parGcipants; (2) health and social centers; (3) state and local governments to inform policy; (4) local, naGonal, and internaGonal conferences; (5) peer-review publicaGons and conferences; and (6) an age-friendly ebook.
Keywords: elder, Longitudinal, Qualitative, focus group, Retirement
Received: 29 Jul 2024; Accepted: 30 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Alvarez-Bueno, Ruiz-Grao, Lucerón Lucas-Torres, López-González, Lorenzo-García, López and Rodríguez-Martin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Marta Carolina Ruiz-Grao, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, 13071, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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