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| Everyday living in later life | | Author(s) | Bill Bytheway |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA; Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies (CABS), Open University |
| Publisher | Centre for Policy on Ageing, London, 2003 |
| Pages | 65 pp (The representation of older people in ageing research series, no 4) |
| Source | Central Books, 50 Freshwater Road, Chadwell Heath, Dagenham, RM8 1RX. |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Self care capacity ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Methodology ; Quantitative studies ; Conference proceedings. |
| Annotation | The mundane nature of everyday ageing life is explored in four papers, which were first presented at a seminar in March 2001 held at the Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA), and organised jointly by CPA and the Open University's Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies (CABS). Ken Plummer's introduction explains the focus on ways in which everyday life is recorded and narrated, using the qualitative tools of documentary research - diaries, letters and logs - that enable the first-hand recording of such experiences. First, Janet Askham uses questions from the General Household Survey (GHS) as her starting point on interpreting measures of activities of daily living (ADLs). Dorothy Sheridan and Caroline Holland examine how first-hand accounts from the Mass-Observation Archive (M-OA) at the University of Sussex can be used to study everyday life. Bill Bytheway and Julia Johnson describe research for the Department of Health (DH) on older people keeping diaries to manage their long-term medication. Lastly, Angela Dickinson explores the use of food diaries to study the everyday reality of food use for older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030205002 B |
| Classmark | BG: CA: DB: 3D: 3DQ: 6M |
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