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| Living alone towards the end of life | | Author(s) | Clive Seale |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 16, part 1, January 1996 |
| Pages | pp 75-91 |
| Keywords | Living alone ; Independence ; The Family ; Friends ; Neighbours. |
| Annotation | The aim of this paper is to analyse the negotiation of help as represented in accounts given in interviews with the relatives, friends and neighbours who knew a sample of older people living alone in the last years of their lives. It reveals that they sought to locate themselves as members of a community of care by stressing their activity in the surveillance of the older persons, and in the negotiations over their institutional placements. It also provides a picture of the perspective of older people who live alone and their struggle to maintain a reputation for independence in the face of neighbourly surveillance for signs of decline. |
| Accession Number | CPA-960223004 A |
| Classmark | K8: C3: SJ: SX: SY |
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