Defining Your “Life Territory”: The Meaning of Place and Home for Community Dwellers and Nursing Home Residents—A Qualitative Study in Four European Countries
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4 janvier 2022
- ISIDORE Id: 10670/1.f26f7f...
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- doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010517
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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 homesSujets proches
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Fiona Ecarnot et al., « Defining Your “Life Territory”: The Meaning of Place and Home for Community Dwellers and Nursing Home Residents—A Qualitative Study in Four European Countries », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.3390/ijerph19010517
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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.
