Socio-spatial aspects of ageing in an urban context: an example from three Czech Republic cities

GALČANOVÁ, Lucie and Dana SÝKOROVÁ. Socio-spatial aspects of ageing in an urban context: an example from three Czech Republic cities. Ageing and Society. 2015, vol. 35, No 6, p. 1200-1220. ISSN 0144-686X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X14000154.

Basic information

• Original name: Socio-spatial aspects of ageing in an urban context: an example from three Czech Republic cities
• Name in Czech: Socioprostorové aspekty stárnutí v urbánním kontextu: příklad tří měst v České republice.
• Authors: GALČANOVÁ, Lucie (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Dana SÝKOROVÁ (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: Ageing and Society, 2015, 0144-686X.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50000 5. Social Sciences
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 1.827
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/15:00080581
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X14000154
• UT WoS: 000357882700004
• Keywords in English: ageing;urban environment;social change;post-socialist city;qualitative research;Czech Republic
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine how older people make sense of the changing urban environment – that is, how they experience, perceive and interpret their everyday interaction with its materiality, as well as their social ties, networks and relations. The results, based on seven focus groups and 37 individual in-depth interviews with older residents of the three most populous Czech cities, show how older people maintain the continuity of their activities, autonomy and independence within the limits of their personal resources in an active relationship with a changing urban environment and within the post-socialist context. The research supports the results of former studies that emphasise the ability of older adults to negotiate their position and actively cope with change while they age in place.

Links

• GAP404/10/1555, research and development project: Name: Stáří v prostoru: regenerace, gentrifikace a sociální exkluze jako nové problémy environmentální gerontologie

Investor: Czech Science Foundation