The Home Environments of Older People

A Description of the Psychosocial Processes Linking Person to Place

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23344205
AutoresRobert L Rubinstein (Philadelphia Fire Department, autor de correspondencia)
Año1989
Volumen44
Número2
PáginasS45-S53
Fecha de publicación1989-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Gerontology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-1422 • E-ISSN: 2331-3323
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/geronj/44.2.s45
PMID2921478
OpenAlexW2041708129
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas65

This study describes how older people endow the home environment with meaning. Specifically, it describes the nature and meaning of the linkages between the older individual and the home environment, suggesting that the home environment is given meaning through three classes of psychosocial processes relating the person to (a) the sociocultural order, (b) the life course, and (c) the body. Seven discrete components of the processes are illustrated, using extensive case examples derived from lengthy ethnographic interviews with seven elderly informants. In the context of the relationship of the individual to culture, the study assumes the salience of personal meaning as a significant level of analysis.

Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology) · Developmental psychology · Ethnography · Meaning (existential) · Psychosocial · Psychotherapist · Salience (neuroscience) · Social environment · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology