Data Collection
	The first author conducted interviews with all 10 participants and interviewed 2 of the participants twice.  All participants were given written information about the study and signed consent forms before entering the interview.  The interviews took place at each woman’s home or in a service center within the retirement community, based on the women’s preference.  Interview questions were open and based on the main interview question (Bjornsdottir, Arnadottir, Halldorsdottir, 2012).  
Data Analysis
	The researchers used the 12 basic steps of the research process of the Vancouver School of Doing Phenomenology: sampling, deliberately put aside preconceived ideas, conduct interviews, data analysis, coding, construction of analytic framework, verification of the analytic framework, constructing the structure of the phenomenon, comparing the structure of the phenomenon with the data, identifying the overriding themes, verifying the conclusions and then writing up the findings (Bjornsdottir, Arnadottir, Halldorsdottir, 2012).  When all 3 researchers concluded that no new information was gained from the 2 last interviews, saturation was reached.
Findings
	The researchers identified 3 main themes that either facilitated or were a barrier to physical activity.  The 3 themes are the physical environment, the woman herself and the social environment.  In the physical environment non-slippery sidewalks, good outdoor areas and indoor exercise facility are facilitators of PA and icy sidewalks, hills and stairs, poor outdoor areas and unfamiliar surroundings were barriers to PA.  Facilitators of PA pertaining to the woman are a former physical lifestyle, motivation, self-efficacy and sociability.   Barriers of PA include a physically passive lifestyle, low motivation, declining health and sociophobia.  In the social environment encouraging relationships with family, low care responsibility, offers of physical training and encouragement from staff are facilitators of PA while the absence or opposite of these are barriers to PA.