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How do unfamiliar environments convey meaning to older people? Urban dimensions of placelessness and attachment

Judith Phillips, Nigel Walford, Ann Hockey

International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 73 - 102

Swansea University Author: Judith Phillips

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DOI (Published version): 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.116273

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The discussion within gerontology of the relationship between older people and their environment (place attachment & ageing in place in particular) has been based on an assumption of familiarity with place. Yet increasingly older people experience unfamiliar environments. This can be through inc...

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Published in: International Journal of Ageing and Later Life
ISSN: 1652-8670
Published: 2012
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