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Enjoying the third age!
— Discourse, identity and liminality in extra-care communities | | Author(s) | Karen West, Rachel Shaw, Barbara Hagger, Carol Holland |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 37, no 9, October 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, October 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1874-1897 |
| Source | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X16000556 |
| Keywords | Extra care ; Sheltered housing ; Retirement communities ; Qualitative Studies. |
| Annotation | Extra-care housing has been an important and growing element of housing and care for older people in the United Kingdom since the 1990s. Previous studies have examined specific features and programmes within extra-care locations, but few have studied how residents negotiate social life and identity. Those that have, have noted that while extra care brings many health-related and social benefits, extra-care communities can also be difficult affective terrain. Given that many residents are now 'ageing in place' in extra care, it is timely to revisit these questions of identity and affect. The authors draw on the qualitative element of a three-year, mixed-method study of 14 extra-care villages and schemes run by the ExtraCare Charitable Trust. They follow M W Alemàn in regarding residents' ambivalent accounts of life in ExtraCare as important windows on the way in which liminal residents negotiate the dialectics of dependence and independence. However, they suggest that the dialectic of interest here is that of the third and fourth age, as described by Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs in 2010. The authors set that dialectic within a post-structuralist / Lacanian framework, in order to examine the different modes of enjoyment that liminal residents procure in ExtraCare's third age public spaces and ideals. The authors suggest that residents' complaints can be read in three ways: as statements about altered material conditions; as inter-subjective bolstering of group identity; and as fantasmatic support for liminal identities. Finally, the authors examine the implications that this latter psycho-social reading of residents' complaints has for enhancing and supporting residents' well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171017006 A |
| Classmark | QA:58D: KLA: ROA: 3DP |
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