Environment and Identity in Later Life

By Sheila M. Peace, Leonie Kellaher, Caroline Holland

Throughout life, our everyday interactions with material, social, and psychological environments influence our self identity: and 'who we think we are' influences how we behave in particular places. In later life, people bring to this relationship a lifetime's experience that makes certain associations more or less important. This book explores the relationship between environment and identity for older people. In this detailed ethnographic study, older people talk in depth about their situations and experiences of space and place. The book examines the experience of men and women of different ages and cultures living in a range of different kinds of places, including 'ordinary' and 'special' housing - from a high-rise flat to a residential care home - in semi-rural, urban and metropolitan locations within the Midlands and south-east England.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0335215114
• ISBN13: 9780335215119
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"