Author:
BIGGS SIMON,BERNARD MIRIAM,KINGSTON PAUL,NETTLETON HILARY
Abstract
This paper examines the culture and narratives occurring in a purpose-built
retirement community. It is argued that in order to understand the effects that
such a community can have on wellbeing, it is necessary to analyse the
interaction of a variety of interweaving narratives used to sustain a secure
micro-cultural base. These narratives include formal representations, daily life
as experienced by tenants and imaginative associations within community
culture. Retirement communities for older people have been represented as
containing the positive features of both residential care and neighbourhood
life. They have also been criticised as promoting exclusivity and negative
attitudes to outsiders. Tenants reported experiences of a high level of
interdependence and peer support. They saw the community as a positive
alternative to nursing homes, continued residence in their local neighbourhoods and reliance on family support. It was found that this retirement
community was perceived to have a positive effect on wellbeing which was
attributed to peer culture and was sustained by imaginative narratives of
miracle and progress. However, certain groups were excluded from this
dominant reading.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Geriatrics and Gerontology,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Social Psychology,Health (social science)
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