Place Familiarity and Community Ageing-with-Place in Urban Neighbourhoods

Fung, John Chye

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“…Considering places as being co-constructed has been supported by social anthropology (Carpenter, 1958;Malmberg, 1980) for some time, but the role of familiarity has not been explored. Our results point to a relationship between familiarity and the construction of personal territories, as experiencing familiarity might be necessary for our participants' creating and using territories (Fung, 2020;Hay, 1998;McGovern, 2017). Territories seem to be constructed at the crossroads between environment (physical territory), social relations (social territory) and given meanings (cultural territory) (Sack, 1992).…”

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Familiarity and participation outside home for persons living with dementia

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Familiarity is important for persons living with dementia who participate outside home. When familiarity is challenged, such participation may be difficult. This ethnographic study clarifies how familiarity is experienced by persons with dementia in performing activities and visiting places, and how familiarity contributes to maintaining participation outside home. Nine participants were interviewed in their home and while visiting familiar places. Data were content analysed using a constant comparative method. The findings suggest that persons with dementia experience familiarity as continuous and whole, through occurrences that support personal territories. Landmarks and objects enhance the experience of familiarity. Familiarity that is continuously challenged may render participation outside home fragile.

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Familiarity and participation outside home for persons living with dementia

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“…Iamtrakul et al (2019) conducted research to understand the health-related problems of age groups between different life styles and neighborhood characteristics in Thailand and recommended encouraging AA by optimizing health, participation, and security opportunities to enhance quality of life [66]. Fung (2020) indicated that the community support of AA becomes a crucial part of the urban neighborhood's collective resilience [67]. Some authors introduced the gender perspective and found that old age punishes women more than men because they live longer and under worse conditions [68,69].…”

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An Inclusive Model for Assessing Age-Friendly Urban Environments in Vulnerable Areas

2021

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Population aging is becoming a major challenge in many countries. This paper deals with the elderly’s specific needs in the public open space as it can play a significant role in their social inclusion and could be especially relevant in deprived areas. The main goal is to build a model to evaluate the vulnerability of the public space by focusing on the elderly’s needs, using indicators. A previous analysis of the scientific and policy-oriented literature and of the technical standards and regulations linked with accessibility and social aspects that affect the elderly in urban areas was performed to identify the main dimensions for evaluation. The interjudge agreement technique was applied to validate the indicators with a panel of experts in technical and social disciplines. The model was applied to a vulnerable area in Castellón (East Spain), based on indicators adapted to the specific context features. The agreement level reached by experts was used to weight the indicators. The application of the model permitted the vulnerability in the suggested dimensions to be estimated and a global integrated index of vulnerability in the area to be calculated. It could assist in urban planning decision making toward age-friendly and, therefore, inclusive cities.

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“…Nevertheless, successful aging requires the active involvement of society (Fung, 2020). For instance, Fung (2020), stated that resilience at both the individual and community level is important for the elderly to enjoy a good quality of life. That said, there are also limitations to successful aging, such as creating the nursing home care, professional human resource, and providing a community which is friendly towards the geriatric population.…”

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Quality of Life among the Elderly at Rumah Seri Kenangan, Cheras, Malaysia

Wencellas

Hashim

2019

E-BPJ

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The research objectives were to determine the relationships between age, education level, previous employment, and marital status towards the quality of life among the elderly at Rumah Seri Kenangan, Cheras. The study employed a quantitative research approach through the adoption of the Ferrans conceptual model for quality of life. The consensus sampling technique evoked a sample size of n=145. The analyses obtained from this study revealed that there were no significant relationships between the first three independent variables to their quality of life except for marital status; the quality of life is better if there is companionship among the elderly.Keywords: Elderly; Quality of Life; Social environment; DemographyeISSN: 2398-4287 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v4i12.1752

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Place Familiarity and Community Ageing-with-Place in Urban Neighbourhoods

Cited by 7 publications

References 41 publications

Familiarity and participation outside home for persons living with dementia

Familiarity and participation outside home for persons living with dementia

An Inclusive Model for Assessing Age-Friendly Urban Environments in Vulnerable Areas

Quality of Life among the Elderly at Rumah Seri Kenangan, Cheras, Malaysia

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