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'I like to go out to be energised by different people'
— an exploratory analysis of mobility and wellbeing in later life | | Author(s) | Friederike Ziegler, Tim Schwanen |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 31, part 5, July 2011 |
| Pages | pp 758-781 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Independence ; Well being ; Durham [County]. |
| Annotation | This paper proposes a broader understanding of mobility than movement through physical space, and considers how this affects well-being. It conceptualises mobility as the overcoming of any type of distance between two places, which can be situated in physical, electronic, social, psychological or other kinds of space. Data gathered in focus groups and interviews of 128 older people in County Durham suggests that mobility and well-being influence each other in many different ways. Findings show that mobility of the self - a mental disposition of openness, and a willingness to connect with the world - is a key driver of the relationship between mobility and well-being. While loss of mobility in a physical sense often affects older people's sense of well-being adversely, this is not necessarily so: other mobilities can at least to some extent compensate for the loss of physical mobility. Well-being is also enhanced through physical mobility because the latter enables independence or subjectively experienced autonomy, as well as social relations with other people. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110721003 A |
| Classmark | C4: C3: D:F:5HH: 8DU |
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