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This is my home
— the story of older Korean immigrants | | Author(s) | Eunju Hwang |
| Corporate Author | Gerontology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver |
| Journal title | Seniors' Housing Update, vol 15, no 2, 2006 |
| Pages | pp 1/8 |
| Source | http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/grc/shup.html |
| Keywords | Asian people ; Korea ; Immigrants ; Health services ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Qualitative Studies ; North America. |
| Annotation | This article features the problems faced by ageing immigrant Koreans in North America, in relation to their health care and the built environment. Korean immigrants are one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in North America, and are considered to be a "triple jeopardy group" by virtue of their ethnicity, lower socioeconomic immigrant status and education and language barriers. Many older Koreans come to the US sponsored by their adult children. The author worked in the Minneapolis public housing authority and Korean Service Center to develop culturally appropriate services. A phenomenological approach of examining life stories was used to emphasize unique subjective experiences of "home" for the 12 participants (9 women and 3 men aged 56 to 87) that were recruited from the housing and ethnic service centres in the neighbourhood. Three themes were identified which related to different aspects of "home": psychological, physical and social. It is hoped that this work will make it easier to develop more culturally appropriate social support services in the future. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061213220 A |
| Classmark | TKK: 7DK: TJ: L: F: 3DP: 7RA |
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