Concept of 'Home'
How do unfamiliar environments convey meaning to older people? Urban dimensions of placelessness and attachment
"Attachment to place" within the gerontological literature is associated with long time periods of exposure to a place and has significantly contributed to how we give meaning to the spaces inhabited and used by older people. We also define ‘‘place’’ in this study on a macro scale - a city or town, rather than in micro terms of accommodation or home.
2011
Housing insecurity and precarious living: an Australian exploration
In this report, we focus on one aspect of housing, which we term ‘housing insecurity’, and the way in which this interacts with other types of insecurities to constitute ‘precarious living’.
2008
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Housing for the aging population
Based on the concept of ‘aging in place,’ design of houses in the past years are explored. Design features in the built environment become barriers for aging people with functional limitations. Initially, houses were designed according to the required needs of the user with the physical limitations.
2007
Polarity or Integration? Towards a Fuller Understanding of Home and Homelessness
INTRODUCTION
There has been an increasing focus on the importance of the personal, social, and cultural variation and diversity in homelessness debates. Researchers are demonstrating a growing awareness of the complexity of homelessness through an emphasis on sub-groups and contexts.
2007
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Dimensions of the Meaning of Home in Later Life
The meaning of home in later life provides a perfect example of how strongly "objective" contextual factors and "subjective" representations are linked as people age. Although a considerable body of research has been published on the meaning of home among elders, the literature is still plagued by pronounced conceptual and empirical diversity.
2005
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The Meaning of Home: a chimerical concept or a legal challenge?
This article shall discuss the meanings of home which have evolved from interdisciplinary research. For the purposes of this discussion these values of home have been grouped into four broad categories: home as a physical structure, home as territory, home as a means of identity and self-identity for its occupiers, and home as a social and cultural phenomenon.
2002
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The meaning of home
The need for a practical understanding of homeless women's lives motivates and underpins the life history and experiential approach adopted in this study. Homelessness is seen as a life process and the lives of homeless women, and the stories they tell about their lives, are experienced and specified in terms that are appropriate to social understanding.
1995
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Homelessness and the Meaning of Home: Rooflessness or Rootlessness?
Introduction
This paper has several objectives.
1992
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."