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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809710803321

Autore

Clough Roger

Titolo

Housing Decisions in Later Life [[electronic resource] /] / by Roger Clough, Mary Leamy, Vince Miller, Les Bright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

1-280-28284-3

9786610282845

0-230-00593-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 255 p.)

Disciplina

361.61

Soggetti

Social sciences

Social policy

Aging

Social work

Sociology

Welfare state

Social service

Social Sciences

Social Policy

Social Work

Politics of the Welfare State

Social Care

Sociology, general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Housing Decisions in Later Life -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Houses and People: The Construction of Living Arrangements -- 2 Telling Older People's Housing Stories -- 3 Housing Decisions in Later Life -- 4 Understanding Housing Decisions -- 5 Attachments to Home -- 6 Worried Lives -- 7 The 'looking glass self' -- 8 Preferences in Living Arrangements -- 9 Theory, Policy and Practice -- Appendix 1: Interview



Schedule -- Appendix 2: Questionn -- Appendix 3: Suggested 'Letter to the Editor' to Ask for Written Housing Stories -- Appendix 4: Written Housing Stories Press Release -- Notes -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the processes by which older people make housing decisions and the impact such decisions have on the construction of their lives. Evidence is included from a major three-year research study, where older people told stories of their lives. The authors argue that housing decisions are not necessarily the result of rational, analytical and objective thinking. The contribution of other ways of decision-making is often hidden, as when people think intuitively, act impulsively, or for essentially emotional reasons.