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Single older men in disadvantaged households
— narratives of meaning around everyday life | | Author(s) | Cherry Russell, Maree Porter |
| Journal title | Ageing International, vol 28, no 4, Fall 2003 |
| Pages | pp 359-371 |
| Keywords | Older men ; Single persons ; Poverty ; Living patterns ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Few studies have investigated how older people themselves conceptualise and talk about what they do with their time. Even fewer have addressed such issues from the perspective of older people whose living arrangements and lifestyles diverge from majority, middle class pathways. This paper draws on in-depth interview data from the Ageing Men's Health Project, a 3-year ethnographic study of the health, housing, and service use of low income, single, non-homeowning men aged 50+, living in inner-city Sydney, Australia. Among other topics, the men were asked to describe an average day and otherwise elaborate on the everyday circumstances of their lives. Findings highlight the extent to which men's everyday lives are constrained and curtailed by economic disadvantage and health deficits. At the same time, the men invest their activities with a range of sociocultural meanings that do not always match professionally constructed categories and understandings. In particular, social relationships with other men appear to be central to the meanings they confer on everyday life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041202204 A |
| Classmark | BC: SQ: W6: K7: F: CC: 3J: 7YA |
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