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The dark side
— stigma in purpose-built senior environments | | Author(s) | Regina Hrybyk, Robert L Rubinstein, J Kevin Eckert |
| Journal title | Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 26, nos 1-3, January-September 2012 |
| Pages | pp 275-289 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Housing [elderly] ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Care homes ; Independent housing ; Attitude ; Ageism. |
| Annotation | This paper focuses on stigma in collective living environments for older adults. Two design profiles are compared and contrasted - a purpose-built campus which opened in 1997, and an older setting that grew by accretion over decades. The separation by care levels in both sites is reflected in their cultures as residents and staff relate to levels of care through a vocabulary of fear. Residents of the independent living building on the purpose-built campus refer to the assisted living building as `the dark side.' In this setting stigma is assigned to a place in the built environment. By contrast, the older setting features a less structured clustering of independent living and assisted living. Less stigma associated with levels of care can be observed in this older building. Grounding their analysis in data drawn from ongoing ethnographic research, the authors focus on the built environment as it relates to stigma in the social environment. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121026055 A |
| Classmark | KE: RH: KW: KL: DP: B:TOB |
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