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Retirement lifestyles in a niche housing market
— park-home living in England | | Author(s) | Mark Bevan |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 30, part 6, August 2010 |
| Pages | pp 965-985 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso doi:10.1017/S0144686X10000176 |
| Keywords | Private care homes ; Housing [elderly] ; Attitude ; Consumer choice ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Residential mobile homes, now usually referred to as "park homes", are a small niche sector in the UK housing market. This paper reports a study of 40 residents of park-homes that focused on their motivations for choosing this form of accommodation, and their views about and experiences of park-home living. Whilst this sector has long provided a low-cost option for people of all ages, in recent years it has increasingly aligned itself as a lifestyle choice for older people. Despite their diverse reasons for moving to park homes, most respondents reported very positive experiences of park-home living, and shared similar views about the benefits, but there were a few dissenting voices. Two conceptual frameworks are used to help understand respondents' experiences. "Elective belonging" offers a way of contextualising the narrative that people articulate about their lifestyle choices and that affirm their sense of biographical continuity, even having moved to new locations. This notion also helps frame some of the tensions that arise among the residents. The second framework, "biographical disruption", is a way of framing the stories that the respondents told when their lives had not followed the anticipated trajectory and by which they coped and made sense of their circumstances which soured their chosen lifestyle. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100719003 A |
| Classmark | KWH: KE: DP: WYC: 3F |
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