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Aging in place — knowing where you are
Author(s)	Natalie Rosel
Journal title	International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 57, no 1, 2003
Pages	pp 77-90
Source	http://baywood.com
Keywords	Ageing process ; Housing [elderly] ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Attitude ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Research on ageing in place appropriately emphasises the value of familiar surroundings. This study contributes to an exploration of older people's personal knowledge of where and with whom they are ageing in place, knowledge actively accumulated from a lifetime spent in the same area. Structured conversations over a 4-month period with 10 older people living on a peninsula in northern Maine provide richly detailed narratives of physical and social particulars of where they live. The author uses Rowles' (1978) image of concentric circles radiating out from home to organise the information gathered regarding each older person's home, neighbourhood and community. Most notable is the depth of their personal knowledge of where they are and with whom they are growing old. The author concludes that both the knowledge itself and the sharing of that knowledge with others, contributes to the implicit and explicit support deemed so valuable to older people who age in place. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-040405220 A
Classmark	BG: KE: RH: DP: 3J: 7T
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