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| The rhythm of ageing amongst Chinese elders in sheltered housing | | Author(s) | Siew-Peng Lee |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 34, no 9, October 2014 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, October 2014 |
| Pages | pp 1505-1524 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Chinese people ; Sheltered housing ; Attitude ; Ageing process ; Northern England. |
| Annotation | This paper examines how some older Chinese tenants in a cluster of housing schemes in the north of England differed in their perception, consciousness and management of time. It examines how there was too much or too little time for some of these tenants, and how time played a part in their personal and social identification arising from their experiences of migration. Lefebvre's concept of rhythm analysis is intended to be a transdisciplinary theory that could be used to theorise 'everyday life'. The writer superimposes this concept on the activity and disengagement theories of ageing to add meaning to the ethnographic data gathered, and argues that ageing is not a simple matter of activity or disengagement. These Chinese elders coped with change through a flexible and ongoing process of adapting to different rhythms of life. This paper aims to contribute to the empirical understanding of ageing for a minority in Britain, and to present a novel theoretical perspective on research approaches to ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150609003 A |
| Classmark | TKL: KLA: DP: BG: 82N |
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