More Than Aging in Place: “Aging in Networks” in Singapore

Gao, Siyao; Ho, Elaine Lynn-Ee; Chua, Vincent; Feng, Chen-Chieh

doi:10.1080/24694452.2024.2370922

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

2024

DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2024.2370922

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More Than Aging in Place: “Aging in Networks” in Singapore

Siyao Gao,

Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho,

Vincent Chua

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Illustrating a Splatial Framework to Aging: Absolute, Relative, Relational, and Mental Space in Singapore

Feng,

Chin,

Gao

et al. 2024

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Understanding the interactions between older adults and their living spaces is an important research topic within the human dynamics of geographical scholarship because of their implications on the quality of aging. The prevailing theory of aging tends to stress aging in place which associates aging well with the home and community, thus inadvertently privileging residential neighborhoods as the focal point where older adults spend most of their time. Recent studies have, however, suggested that older adults also age in (social) networks that extend beyond their neighborhoods' physical locations. The need to incorporate perspectives on aging in networks has challenged the prioritization and the enforcement of absolute (or physical) space in GIS software. This study investigates the potential for integrating four top‐level spaces (absolute, relative, relational, and mental) to capture different dimensions of older adults' everyday lives. By leveraging on a dataset of older adults in Singapore, this study demonstrates how the four spaces combined facilitates understanding of aging, specifically their activity spaces, that would otherwise be achieved in a fragmented manner.

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Illustrating a Splatial Framework to Aging: Absolute, Relative, Relational, and Mental Space in Singapore

Feng,

Chin,

Gao

et al. 2024

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Ageing in networks: The unbounded geographies of non-migrant and migrant older adults

Ho,

Chua,

Feng

2024

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We propose ‘ageing in networks’ as an optic that shows how the social networks of older adults extend beyond their residential neighbourhoods to extra-local and transnational settings. The paper brings together literature on ageing and social networks in mobilities and migration research to identify shared thematic framings between non-migrant and migrant older adults. Our approach broadens the analytical frame to encapsulate how ageing individually and in communities takes place through local and international mobility and via digital technologies. Ageing in networks also illuminates the importance of connecting their social protection needs with those of the people in their care assemblages.

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More Than Aging in Place: “Aging in Networks” in Singapore

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Illustrating a Splatial Framework to Aging: Absolute, Relative, Relational, and Mental Space in Singapore

Illustrating a Splatial Framework to Aging: Absolute, Relative, Relational, and Mental Space in Singapore

Ageing in networks: The unbounded geographies of non-migrant and migrant older adults

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