Older adults’ well-being by the type of residential setting: The case of small municipalities in the Czech Republic

Hubatková, Barbora

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.10.026

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“…The findings presented in this article are based on qualitative data collected as part of a multi‐method research project. In 2016, its quantitative part was conducted – the collection of survey data from a representative sample of the older rural population in the Czech Republic (Petrová Kafková et al ; Vidovićová ; Hubatková ). In total, 1,235 completed questionnaires were collected from face‐to‐face interviews with people aged 60 years and above.…”

Section: Research Sample Analysis and The Methodological Limits Of mentioning

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Ageing in the Changing Countryside: The Experience of Rural Czechs

Galčanová

Staveník

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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Gerontological research has extensively focused on the experiences of people ageing within changing social contexts. However, accounts from the context of the European post-socialist transformation are missing. In addition, there is a lack of theoretical understanding concerning how older people experience ageing as part of the dynamic process of rural change. In this article, we present the perspectives of older Czech rural residents on living and ageing in the changing countryside. Based on 20 qualitative interviews with older adults, we show how they interpret contemporary changes in three major areas: politics and economy, infrastructure and technology, and local population and community life. Embedded in a constructionist approach, we aim to understand how their interpretations of current changes are related to their views on the past, to their self-positioning within current and past changes and their sense of local and social belonging. We introduce the concept of biographical contextualisation, which grasps the temporal horizon of meaning-making with regard to contemporary changes in rural life.

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Section: Research Sample Analysis and The Methodological Limits Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ageing in the Changing Countryside: The Experience of Rural Czechs

Galčanová

Staveník

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…Such groups remain socially excluded. The literature pays attention, especially, to the access of elder adults to the services, e.g., Hubatková [8]. Such people often migrate to rural areas for a quiet milieu, but later they discover the bad accessibility of basic services, more often healthcare.…”

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Accessibility of Services in Rural Areas: Southern Moravia Case Study

Vaishar

Šťastná

2021

Sustainability

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The accessibility of basic services in rural settlements in the South Moravian Region was evaluated; the accessibility by public transport was taken into account because the accessibility by individual car transport does not manifest any problems. The accessibility was calculated for 768 rural settlements, defined as spatially separate places which do not belong to municipalities with extended power. The time distance includes the time of the ride plus 8 min walking distance to and from the stop. The data was taken from the Integrated Transport System of the South Moravian Region, which ensures that each populated place in the region has to be connected by public transport at least six times on working days. The results show that for 99.8% of the inhabitants of the region, central places equipped with a post office, a basic school and a general practitioner’s office are accessible in a shorter time than 30 min. The accessibility of the services depends primarily on the characteristics of the settlement system and the physical conditions of the transport. In lowland areas, the share of settlements with comfortable accessibility is expressively higher than that of the highland and peripheral territories. The possible future improvement consists of the digitization of the services.

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