162,297 research outputs found
Case Study: A Community-Based Approach to Developing Optimal Housing for Low-Income Older Adults
No full textSince 2014, the Gerontology Research Centre at Simon Fraser University, in partnership with the Richmond Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society and the city of Richmond, has overseen the transition of low-income senior tenants from old, dilapidated accommodations into an affordable housing redevelopment project (Kiwanis Towers) in Richmond, British Columbia. The challenge was ensuring the seniors experienced their move with reduced stress and to find solutions for enhanced social participation to prevent loneliness and social isolation. To do this, a transdisciplinary (across diverse disciplines and sectors) partnership was created among gerontologists, health scientists, a geographer, an ecologist, and a psychologist along with the building’s management, and local community organizations (involving the older adult tenants themselves). A series of community consultations using innovative community-based research methods identified the need for housing interventions that build a sense of place (Fang et al., 2018) and that keep older adults mentally and physically active while providing opportunities to build social capital as well as facilitating an enhanced role for older adults in the design process (Sixsmith et al., 2017)
Sixsmith, Judith, and Andrew J. Sixsmith, Empirical Phenomenology: Principles and Method, Quality and Quantity, 21(1987), 313-333.*
No full textGives the principles of phenomenological method and describes the use of Multiple Sorting Task (MST) approach and Multidimensional Scalogram Analysis (MSA) in analyzing phenomenological data
Healthy ageing and home: The perspectives of very old people in five European countries
Full text linkThis paper reports on in-depth research, using a grounded theory approach, to examine the ways in which very old people perceive healthy ageing in the context of living alone at home within urban settings in five European countries. This qualitative study was part of a cross-national project entitled ENABLE-AGE which examined the relationship between home and healthy ageing. Interviews explored the notion of healthy ageing, the meaning and importance of home, conceptualisations of independence and autonomy and links between healthy ageing and home. Data analysis identified five ways in which older people constructed healthy ageing: home and keeping active; managing lifestyles, health and illness; balancing social life; and balancing material and financial circumstances. Older people reflected on their everyday lives at home in terms of being engaged in purposeful, meaningful action and evaluated healthy ageing in relation to the symbolic and practical affordances of the home, contextualised within constructions of their national context. The research suggests that older people perceive healthy ageing as an active achievement, created through individual, personal effort and supported through social ties despite the health, financial and social decline associated with growing older. The physicality and spatiality of home provided the context for establishing and evaluating the notion of healthy ageing, whilst the experienced relationship between home, life history and identity created a meaningful space within which healthy ageing was negotiated
Being creative: Engaging and participative methodologies in critical psychology arts for public health
No full textLawthom, R., Kagan, C., Richards, M., Sixsmith, J., & Woolrych, R. (2012). . In C. Horrocks & S. Johnson, (Eds.)
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Narrating Women’s Health Identities in the Context of Community Living
No full textThis chapter presents a qualitative exploration of the relationship between
social capital, health and womanhood for a group of younger working class
women in a socially deprived community in Bolton, UK. The project, funded
by the Health Development Agency involved interviews with 25 younger
women aged between 19 and 38 years. Most were single parents of young
children who were currently unemployed. Our research identified the complex
ways in which younger women took ownership of their health within the social
context of family, friendships and community living. Their narratives about
health focused on experiences of motherhood and community living and were
embedded in networks of social capital (Putnam, 1995, 2000). Women’s health
identities reflected social constructions of motherhood and caring, in which
tiredness and depression were seen as normal parts of everyday life. These
women took responsibility for their own and others’ health becoming health
experts in their own right and sometimes critical of medical expertise. Shared
norms located in the common space of this socially deprived community were
a basis for younger women’s choices about lifestyle which were not always
beneficial for individual or family health. The links between health and
community living were made evident in this research emphasizing the
importance of a narratives approach
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Mr. Melvin J. Collier, RWWL AUC, June 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Mr. Melvin J. Collier. Mr. Collier talks about his book, "From Mississippi to Africa: A Journey of Discovery". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing
No full textIn this latest Advance & Rutgers Report, entitled “A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing,” Dean James W. Hughes and Professor Joseph J. Seneca deliver an incisive assessment of the current market conditions and obstacles in the path of our economic recovery. They offer a statistical cautionary tale that the private and public sector need to hear and acknowledge in order for the economy to make continued progress.This report was published as Issue Paper Number 7, November 2011, in Advance & Rutgers Report
- …
