The Feeling of Insecurity Among the Elderly: Between Environmental Changes and Individual Fragility-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Feeling of Insecurity Among the Elderly: Between Environmental Changes and Individual Fragility

Published:2018-03-01 Issue:1 Volume:44 Page:139-156
ISSN:2297-8348
Container-title:Swiss Journal of Sociology
language:en
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Author:

Kimber Leah R.¹,Burton-Jeangros Claudine¹,Riom Loïc¹,Hummel Cornelia¹

Affiliation:

1. Université de Genève , Département de sociologie , CH-1211 Genève

Abstract

Abstract The literature frequently argues that the feeling of insecurity might be greater among the elderly than in other population groups. Based on results of a qualitative study which consisted of 51 interviews with people aged between 70 and 92 years old, this paper proposes to approach the feeling of insecurity from the actors’ perspective. This allows us to take into account the perception of the elderly in order to dispose of the age-related vision that tends to erase the effects of fragility due to aging.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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