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| Meaningful social interactions between older people in institutional care settings | | Author(s) | Gill Hubbard, Susan Tester, Murna G Downs |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 23, part 1, January 2003 |
| Pages | pp 99-114 |
| Keywords | Social interaction ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Scotland. |
| Annotation | This paper contributes to our knowledge and understanding of social relationships in institutional care settings, by focusing on relatively neglected areas of research: the reasons for and types of social interaction in institutional settings, and the ways in which the context of people's lives shapes social interaction. The paper draws on the ethnographic observations conducted in four care settings in Scotland (three in nursing homes, one in a residential home), using a symbolic interactionist perspective. It finds that residents communicate and interact, and that the personal, cultural and structural contexts frame social interaction and influence the ways that residents use humour, express sexuality, and show hostility. The paper concludes that residents create social interactions in which action is embedded, but do so within specific structural and cultural contexts. These contexts "control" resident action by establishing frameworks for the interpretation of meaning. At the same time, each facet of context is "controlled" by the ways in which residents actively take on the "role" of others, and project "self" and a "label". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030210008 A |
| Classmark | TMA: KX: LHB: KW: 9A |
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