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| Household disbandment in later life | | Author(s) | David J Ekerdt, Julie F Sergeant, Molly Dingel |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 5, September 2004 |
| Pages | pp S265-S273 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | House removal ; Gifts [elderly] ; Assets [elderly] ; Attitude ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Disbandment is an acute episode of a more general, lifelong process of managing one's possessions. This study describes the activities older people undertake to reduce the volume of their possessions in the course of a residential move to smaller quarters, a process with practical cognitive, emotional and social dimensions. Qualitative interviews were conducted with members of 30 households who had moved in the previous year. The disbandment period, typically about 2 months, was a particular focus of the interview. The interviews suggested 9 reasons why people had accumulated and kept things, which now became problematic for the impending move. The initial steps of disbandment entailed decisions about major furniture and meaningful gifts to family and friends, followed by evaluation of the remaining belongings for retention, sale, further gifts, donation, or discard. Things not divested by one means were reassigned to another strategy. People took pleasure in disposals that saw their things used, cared for, and valued as they had done, thus fulfilling a responsibility to their belongings. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051124205 A |
| Classmark | TNH: JFG: JD: DP: 3DP: 7T |
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