Housing Decisions in Later Life.

By: Clough, RogerContributor(s): Bright, Les | Leamy, Mary | Miller, VinceMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2004Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (267 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780230005938Subject(s): Housing -- Resident satisfaction -- Great Britain | Older people -- Housing -- Great Britain -- Decision makingGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Housing Decisions in Later LifeDDC classification: 363.5946094 LOC classification: H96-H97.7HQ1060-1064Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Housing Decisions in Later Life -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Houses and People: The Construction of Living Arrangements -- 2 Telling Older People's Housing Stories -- 3 Housing Decisions in Later Life -- 4 Understanding Housing Decisions -- 5 Attachments to Home -- 6 Worried Lives -- 7 The 'looking glass self' -- 8 Preferences in Living Arrangements -- 9 Theory, Policy and Practice -- Appendix 1: Interview Schedule -- Appendix 2: Questionn -- Appendix 3: Suggested 'Letter to the Editor' to Ask for Written Housing Stories -- Appendix 4: Written Housing Stories Press Release -- Notes -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Summary: This book examines the processes by which older people make housing decisions and the impact such decisions have on the construction of their lives. Evidence is included from a major three-year research study, where older people told stories of their lives. The authors argue that housing decisions are not necessarily the result of rational, analytical and objective thinking. The contribution of other ways of decision-making is often hidden, as when people think intuitively, act impulsively, or for essentially emotional reasons.
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Cover -- Housing Decisions in Later Life -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Houses and People: The Construction of Living Arrangements -- 2 Telling Older People's Housing Stories -- 3 Housing Decisions in Later Life -- 4 Understanding Housing Decisions -- 5 Attachments to Home -- 6 Worried Lives -- 7 The 'looking glass self' -- 8 Preferences in Living Arrangements -- 9 Theory, Policy and Practice -- Appendix 1: Interview Schedule -- Appendix 2: Questionn -- Appendix 3: Suggested 'Letter to the Editor' to Ask for Written Housing Stories -- Appendix 4: Written Housing Stories Press Release -- Notes -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

This book examines the processes by which older people make housing decisions and the impact such decisions have on the construction of their lives. Evidence is included from a major three-year research study, where older people told stories of their lives. The authors argue that housing decisions are not necessarily the result of rational, analytical and objective thinking. The contribution of other ways of decision-making is often hidden, as when people think intuitively, act impulsively, or for essentially emotional reasons.

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