Home and Identity in Late Life: International Perspectives

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ISBN: 9780826127150 | 0826127150
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/1/2005

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Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington. Resource addresses the concept of home and aging. Offers original essays and research studies, and provides a contemporary perspective on the relationship between home, identity, and the latter stage of life. Topics covered include the essence of home, recreating home, and leaving home. For practitioners, researchers, and graduate students.

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Between the shores of recollection and imagination : self, aging, and home	p. 3
Dimensions of the meaning of home in later life	p. 21
Home, self, and identity	p. 47
Cherished objects and the home : their meaning and roles in late life	p. 63
Home in the context of religion for elderly Hindus in India	p. 81
Psychic homelands and the imagination of place : a literary perspective	p. 111
Elderly migrants and the concept of home : a Swedish perspective	p. 143
Semiotic use of the word "home" among people with Alzheimer's disease : a plea for selfhood?	p. 171
Conceptualizing home and homelessness : a life course perspective	p. 197
African reinventions : home, place, and kinship among Abaluyia of Kenya	p. 219
Home, identity, and belonging in later life : the perspectives of disadvantaged inner-city men	p. 237
The image of nursing homes and its impact on the meaning of home for elders	p. 251
On community as home : places that endure in rural Kansas	p. 279
The influence of neighborhood and community on well-being and identity in later life : an English perspective	p. 297
Growing older in postwar suburbs : the meanings and experiences of home	p. 317
On using "home" and "place"	p. 343
Home as paradox	p. 361
New horizons on home	p. 371
Leaving home	p. 379
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