: Growing old in urban environment - cities and neighbourhoods
in older people narratives

GALČANOVÁ, Lucie. : Growing old in urban environment - cities and neighbourhoods in older people narratives. In European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Conference on "Mixité". 2011.

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AU  - Galčanová, Lucie
PY  - 2011
TI  - : Growing old in urban environment - cities and neighbourhoods in older people narratives
KW  - growing old;ageing;gentrification;ageing in place;Czech Republic;qualitative research
UR  - http://www.enhr2011.com/
N2  - The paper is based on the research project ‘Ageing in the environment: regeneration, gentrification and social exclusion as new issues in environmental gerontology (2010-2012)’ which strives to understand how nowadays urban processes shape the experience of growing old and how ageing of population influences urban environment. Here we present results from focus groups discussions and individual in-depth interviews with older community dwelling residents of central parts of three biggest Czech cities: Prague, Brno and Ostrava. These cities in Central Europe went through major changes in last two decades that shaped not only social, economic, and political environment, but deeply influenced also their built environment. In our presentation we focus on how do the participants of our research perceive and experience these changes and how do they cope with the changes in their neighbourhoods. The city is by the communication partners considered a good place for growing old, as important services, like shops, GPs/hospitals and transportation are usually available in the vicinity. At the same time older people are aware of profound changes in the lived environment of their cities in the last 20 years and they are very heterogeneous in perception of those changes, and reaction to them based on their postcodes, socioeconomic and health status or mobility. One of the main issues emerging from the transcripts is disparity between feelings of growing otherness of their living environment (‘the city is not ours’, [the new neighbours are] ‘strangers, complete strangers; they have nothing in common with us’) with persisting willingness to ‘stay put’ expressed in individual life strategies. The concluding discussion raises question whether and how different forms of regeneration of the cities create risks of real as well as symbolic exclusion of older people and how these are heterogeneously incorporated into older people narratives
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Basic information
Original name	: Growing old in urban environment - cities and neighbourhoods in older people narratives
Authors	GALČANOVÁ, Lucie.
Edition	European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Conference on "Mixité". 2011.

Other information
Original language	English
Type of outcome	Presentations at conferences
Field of Study	50000 5. Social Sciences
Country of publisher	France
Confidentiality degree	is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW	URL
Organization unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Keywords (in Czech)	stárnutí;sousedství;gentrifikace;stárnutí v místě;Česká republika;kvalitativní výzkum
Keywords in English	growing old;ageing;gentrification;ageing in place;Czech Republic;qualitative research
Tags	International impact
Changed by	Changed by: Mgr. Lucie Galčanová Batista, Ph.D., učo 41048. Changed: 17/1/2012 15:26.

Abstract

The paper is based on the research project ‘Ageing in the environment: regeneration, gentrification and social exclusion as new issues in environmental gerontology (2010-2012)’ which strives to understand how nowadays urban processes shape the experience of growing old and how ageing of population influences urban environment. Here we present results from focus groups discussions and individual in-depth interviews with older community dwelling residents of central parts of three biggest Czech cities: Prague, Brno and Ostrava. These cities in Central Europe went through major changes in last two decades that shaped not only social, economic, and political environment, but deeply influenced also their built environment. In our presentation we focus on how do the participants of our research perceive and experience these changes and how do they cope with the changes in their neighbourhoods. The city is by the communication partners considered a good place for growing old, as important services, like shops, GPs/hospitals and transportation are usually available in the vicinity. At the same time older people are aware of profound changes in the lived environment of their cities in the last 20 years and they are very heterogeneous in perception of those changes, and reaction to them based on their postcodes, socioeconomic and health status or mobility. One of the main issues emerging from the transcripts is disparity between feelings of growing otherness of their living environment (‘the city is not ours’, [the new neighbours are] ‘strangers, complete strangers; they have nothing in common with us’) with persisting willingness to ‘stay put’ expressed in individual life strategies. The concluding discussion raises question whether and how different forms of regeneration of the cities create risks of real as well as symbolic exclusion of older people and how these are heterogeneously incorporated into older people narratives

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

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