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A methodological discourse on gender, independence, and frailty
— applied dimensions of identity construction in old age | | Author(s) | Peter H Stephenson, Nuala K Wolfe, Rory Coughlan |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 13, no 4, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 391-402 |
| Keywords | Older men ; Older women ; Living alone ; Personality ; Independence ; Health services ; Needs [elderly] ; Interviewing ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Methodological implications are discussed of gender, based on research conducted among Canadians aged 67 to over 100 living independently (alone, or with minimal assistance) in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada's retirement capital. The research evolved over time to concern the manner in which people being interviewed altered their presentation of self in discourses on independence and identity, depending on the interviewer's gender as well as their own. There are some significant implications arising from the authors' analysis for assessing people's needs for home-making services and probably for service delivery in general. This article discusses initial qualitative interviews with 19 men and 20 women dealing specifically with the concept of independence. The main significance, methodologically, of the interviews derives from the strategy of doing two separate sets of interviews using the same protocols, but changing the gender of the interviewer/subject dyads from same gender to cross-gender and assessing differences between the two sets of conversations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000120218 A |
| Classmark | BC: BD: K8: DK: C3: L: IK: 3DL: 7S |
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