Housing decisions in later life

Housing decisions in later life /

Deciding where to live at any age is stressful and complex. In later life people imagine their own ageing and whether they will be able to cope in their current house. Drawing on research material from over 1000 older people, the authors unravel this experience. People cannot know their future: some...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Clough, Roger
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Subjects:
Older people > Housing > Great Britain > Decision making.
Housing > Resident satisfaction > Great Britain.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Houses and People: The Construction of Living Arrangements
  • Telling Older People's Housing Stories
  • Housing Decisions in Later Life
  • Understanding Housing Decisions
  • Attachments to Home
  • Worried Lives
  • The 'Looking Glass Self'
  • Preferences in Living Arrangements
  • Theory, Policy and Practice
  • Appendices: 1 Interview Schedule; 2 Questionnaire; 3 'Letter to the editor' requesting written housing stories; 4 Circulation list for press release for written housing stories
  • References.

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