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• Title:
  ‘We Make Ourselves at Home Wherever We are’1-Older People's Placemaking in Newton Hall
• Creator:
  van Hoven, Bettina;
  Douma, Linden
• Contributor:
  van Hoven, Bettina - Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700AV Groningen, the Netherlands;
  Douma, Linden - Department of Demography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700AV Groningen, the Netherlands
• Description:
  The aim of this paper is to explore older in-migrants' experiences and perceptions of their spatial context at the neighbourhood level, the key aspects in their attachment to the neighbourhood, and the role of place in their experience of ageing. Our qualitative research was carried out in Newton Hall (United Kingdom). The findings show that older people can have a proactive role in terms of placemaking and their own wellbeing. However, the study also reveals that the condition of the spatial context can either support or hinder older people's sense of wellbeing.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This content is open access.
• Date:
  2015.07.10;
  2012.07.26
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Lodz Univeristy Press
• Relation:
  European Spatial Research and Policy;19
• Subject:
  ageing;
  older people;
  place attachment;
  Newton Hall
• Identifier:
  1231-1952;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10808 ;
  1896-1525;
  10.2478/v10105-012-0006-7
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other