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Local urban environments and the wellbeing of older people
- Author:
- DAY Rosemary
- Publisher:
- Scottish Centre for Research on Social Justice
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 59p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
This project explored older people's understanding and experience of their local environment, with an emphasis on how it affects their health and well-being. Environmental equity studies have shown that the physical environment tends to be worse in areas of higher deprivation, but we know less about how different people experience such inequality and what is important to them in their local environment. Older people are a particularly interesting group in this respect as they are often more vulnerable to environmental problems such as pollution and poor maintenance. The project took an ethnographic, qualitative approach to explore these issues with older people in areas of different physical characteristics and different levels of deprivation, in the Glasgow / Strathclyde area.
Local urban environments and the wellbeing of older people
- Author:
- DAY Rosemary
- Publisher:
- Scottish Centre for Research on Social Justice
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
This study set out to explore how older urban residents feel their wellbeing is affected by their outdoor local environments. It was also concerned with potential environmental inequalities that might occur in several different ways: through local environments differentially impacting on older people as opposed to other residents, through spatial inequalities in the quality of local environments for older people, and through insufficient access for older people to procedures where decisions affecting local environments are made. The research took a multi-case study approach, taking place in three urban neighbourhoods in the Strathclyde region of West Scotland. These three areas comprised a deprived inner city neighbourhood, a suburban estate slightly more deprived than the Scottish median, and a more affluent small town on the coast. The research approach was qualitative, with data collection using one-to-one in-depth interviews, a smaller number of group interviews, and additional observation of older people outdoors in each area.