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Peace, Sheila; Holland, Caroline and Kellaher, Leonie
(2005).
URL: http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=27150
Abstract
Leading scholars, offering international and multidisciplinary viewpoints, examine the meaning of home to elders and the ways in which this meaning may be sustained, threatened, or modified according to changes associated with growing old.
Organised into four sections: The Essence of Home; Disruptions of Home; creating and Recreating Home; Community Perspectives on the Meaning of Home, this volume explores topics including:
What makes a house a home?
What role does the meaning of home play in the process of relocation to another place of residence?
What is the relationship between a person's home life and cherished possessions such as symbolic jewelry, religious items, in late life?
How does the community/neighbourhood influenbce the way that older people feel about the palces in which they live?