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Ageing is a journey: working on cultures in old age
- Authors:
- BRIDGE Gillian, CYLWIK Helen, WILSON Gail.
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 17(2), April 2007, Online only
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
This paper describes a pilot research project in London aimed at investigating the development of specific cultures in later life. Older people recorded their conversations and group discussions for transcription and analysis over a period of six months. The group was mainly African Caribbean and shared well developed discourses and understandings. The need to guard privacy was accompanied by clearly defined areas of silence and some participants were reluctant to engage in conversation for fear of overstepping cultural limits. Results showed that conversations between peers could produce data unobtainable in other ways. More work is needed to see how far the method could be extended.