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Environment and identity in later life
— a cross-setting study | | Author(s) | Sheila Peace, Caroline Holland, Leonie Kellaher |
| Corporate Author | Growing Older (GO) Programme, Economic & Social Research Council - ESRC |
| Journal title | GO Findings: 18 - Research Findings from the Growing Older Programme, April 2003 |
| Publisher | ESRC, Sheffield, April 2003 |
| Pages | 4 pp |
| Source | ESRC Growing Older Programme, Department of Sociological Studies, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TU. www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gop/index.htm |
| Keywords | Housing [elderly] ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Quality of life ; Research Reviews ; Haringey ; North Bedfordshire ; South Northamptonshire. |
| Annotation | Older people live in all kinds of places: "ordinary" or "special" housing providing different levels of accommodation or care; urban or rural areas; alone or with other people. For most of them, the place where they live is the centre of their everyday life. Homes and neighbourhoods are invested with personal and social meaning, and they have particular characteristics that can affect continuing independence and well-being. This research aimed to advance our understanding of the connections between living environments (including the spaces connecting and separating inside and outside), and the maintenance of identity and well-being in later life, a process that the authors call Option Recognition. The study included a wide range of dwellings, and three different locations were chosen to represent metropolitan (London Borough of Haringey), urban/suburban (Bedford), and villages and small towns in semi-rural southern Northamptonshire. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030707205 A |
| Classmark | KE: RH: F:59: 3A:6KC: 82LF: 8BA: 8NAJ |
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