Perceived Housing in Relation to Retirement and Relocation : A Qualitative Interview Study among Older Adults
(2022) In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(20).- Abstract
As people age the home environment becomes increasingly important. Retirement commonly leads to spending more time in one’s home, and relocating from your own home in older age could be associated with reduced health or wellbeing. The relationship between home and person is complex and perceived aspects of one’s housing such as social, emotional and cognitive ties are considered important factors for health and wellbeing. However, little is known about how perceived aspects of the home change in relation to retirement and relocation. This paper used Situational Analysis to explore, via situational mapping, how community dwelling older adults (aged 60–75) perceived their housing situation in relation to retirement and relocation. The... (More)
As people age the home environment becomes increasingly important. Retirement commonly leads to spending more time in one’s home, and relocating from your own home in older age could be associated with reduced health or wellbeing. The relationship between home and person is complex and perceived aspects of one’s housing such as social, emotional and cognitive ties are considered important factors for health and wellbeing. However, little is known about how perceived aspects of the home change in relation to retirement and relocation. This paper used Situational Analysis to explore, via situational mapping, how community dwelling older adults (aged 60–75) perceived their housing situation in relation to retirement and relocation. The results suggest complex relations between relocation/retirement and perceived housing, and between different aspects of perceived housing. Furthermore, the results suggest that the relationship between life transitions and perceived housing can be seen as bi-directional, where different life transitions affect aspects of perceived housing, and that perceived housing affects (decisions for) relocation. The results suggest complex relations between retirement and relocation, as well as other life transitions, and perceived aspects of one’s housing. It is important to consider these interactions to understand factors that affect health and wellbeing in older adults.
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- author
- Eriksson, Erik ; Wazinski, Karla ; Wanka, Anna ; Kylén, Maya LU ; Oswald, Frank ; Slaug, Björn LU ; Iwarsson, Susanne LU and Schmidt, Steven M. LU
- organization
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- Applied Gerontology (research group)
- Lund OsteoArthritis Division - Joint injury research group (research group)
- Active and Healthy Ageing Research Group (research group)
- EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
- National Graduate School on Ageing and Health (research group)
- MultiPark: Multidisciplinary research focused on Parkinson´s disease
- publishing date
- 2022-10
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- life course transitions, older adults, perceived housing, relocation, retirement
- in
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- volume
- 19
- issue
- 20
- article number
- 13314
- publisher
- MDPI AG
- external identifiers
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- pmid:36293895
- scopus:85140898696
- ISSN
- 1661-7827
- DOI
- 10.3390/ijerph192013314
- project
- Perceived Housing and Life Transitions: Good Ageing-in Place
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Funding Information: The authors would like to acknowledge and thank the participants for sharing their experiences, as well as Lena Lennartsson for transcribing interviews. This study was accomplished within the context of the Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environments (CASE) at Lund University, and the Interdisciplinary Ageing Research (IAW) at Goethe University Frankfurt. E.E.’s learning process was supported by the Swedish National Graduate School on Ageing and Health (SWEAH). Funding Information: This research was funded by Forte, the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, grant number 2019-00235 and by the LMK-stiftelsen, Foundation for Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors.
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- 1cdbc12a-00c6-416a-a0ab-0790ce2daafb
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- 2022-11-09 14:17:59
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