Defining Your “Life Territory”: The Meaning of Place and Home for Community Dwellers and Nursing Home Residents—A Qualitative Study in Four European Countries
Résumé
The meaning of place and home for community dwellers and nursing home residents remains unclear. We explored the relationship between older people and their “life territory”, to propose a working definition of this concept, which could be used to orient policy decisions. Individual, semi-structured interviews were performed with older people, nursing home staff, and representatives of local institutions/elected officials in four European countries (France, Belgium, Germany, Italy). Interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. In total, 54 interviews were performed. Five main themes emerged: (i) working definition of “your life territory” (a multidimensional concept covering individual and collective aspects); (ii) importance of the built environment (e.g., public transport, sidewalks, benches, access ramps); (iii) interactions between nursing homes and the outside community (specifically the need to maintain interactions with the local community); (iv) a sense of integration (dependent on social contacts, seniority in the area, perceived self-utility); and (v) the use of new technologies (to promote integration, social contacts and access to culture). This study found that the “life territory” of older people is a multidimensional concept, centred around five main domains, which together contribute to integrating older people into the fibre of their community.
Mots clés
Ecarnot, F. Sanchez, S. Berrut, G. Suissa, V. Guérin, S. Letty, A. Defining Your "Life Territory": The Meaning of Place and Home for Community Dwellers and Nursing Home Residents-A Qualitative housing built environment environmental gerontology elderly people community nursing homes
Ecarnot, F.
Sanchez, S.
Berrut, G.
Suissa, V.
Guérin, S.
Letty, A. Defining Your "Life Territory": The Meaning of Place and Home for Community Dwellers and Nursing Home Residents-A Qualitative housing
built environment
environmental gerontology
elderly people
community
nursing homes
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société
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