Elders living alone: frailty and the perception of choice
What is it like to be old, have many health problems, and live alone? Never before have there been so many elders, and never before have so many of them been living alone and pursuing their lives independently. This book enters the lives of frail elders who live alone and vividly conveys their conti...
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| Zusammenfassung: | What is it like to be old, have many health problems, and live alone? Never before have there been so many elders, and never before have so many of them been living alone and pursuing their lives independently. This book enters the lives of frail elders who live alone and vividly conveys their continuing struggle to maintain their independence. Many look to their homes as the important facilitating element for that independence. The authors' approach combines an eye and an ear for the telling individual detail, in all of its human complexity, with broader societal and communal concerns. In interviewing their subjects, Rubinstein and his colleagues examine how these elders view the choices they have, understand their independence, and raise possibilities and alternatives. Using a framework that will interest both anthropologists and case workers, the authors explore the cultural background of concepts such as independence and choice, and how they are symbolically located in the home. In this volume, the authors register their subjects' urban isolation, fraught with needs of the most basic kind, imperiled by intermittent and uncertain human contact, erratic provision, and occasionally engulfing solitude. These voices, seldom heard and often heard with reluctance, are caught and interpreted in these pages. |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 172 S. |
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Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
I. Choice Making as a Cultural Ideal and as a Behavior
1 Choice, Independence, and Aging 3
The Realm of Choice and Independence 4
Status Characteristics 12
2 Factors Limiting Choices among the Study Population 25
Health Problems 26
Home and Neighborhood 32
Neighborhood 37
Fear 45
3 The Altered Ethos of Choice among Frail Eiders
Living Alone 51
The Culture of Living Alone 52
Choices Writ Small 55
Vectors to the Outside World: Social Support,
Social Networks, and the Personal Agents 60
Loneliness 63
II. Socialization for Choice Making among Frail Eiders
4 The World at Home 79
Home as a Place 80
Some Cases 84
vi Contents
5 The Effect of Life History on Individual Choice:
The Nature and the Role of Continuity 99
6 The Effect of Life History on Individual Choice:
Discontinuity 125
III. Choice and Successful Aging: The Balancing Act
7 The Miniaturization of Satisfaction and
Thereafter Choice 143
8 Successful and Unsuccessful Balancing Acts
and the Role of the Individual and Community 153
References 167
Index 169
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