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Socio-spatial aspects of ageing in an urban context — an example from three Czech Republic cities
Author(s)	Lucie Galcanova, Dana Sykorova
Journal title	Ageing and Society, vol 35, no 6, July 2015
Publisher	Cambridge University Press, July 2015
Pages	pp 1200-1220
Source	journals.cambridge.org/aso
Keywords	Social interaction ; Social change ; Urban areas ; Qualitative Studies ; Czech Republic.
Annotation	The purpose of this study is to examine how older people make sense of the changing urban environment - that is, how they experience, perceive and interpret their everyday interaction with its materiality, as well as their social ties, networks and relations. The study is based on seven focus groups and 37 individual in-depth interviews with older residents of the three most populous Czech cities. The results show how older people maintain the continuity of their activities, autonomy and independence within the limits of their personal resources in an active relationship with a changing urban environment and within the post-socialist context. The research supports the results of previous studies that emphasise the ability of older adults to negotiate their position and actively cope with change while they age in place. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-150626014 A
Classmark	TMA: TMH: RK: 3DP: 7AD
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