Ageing in Changing Community Contexts: Cross-Border Perspectives from Rural Ireland and Northern Ireland

Autor/inn/en	Walsh, Kieran; O'Shea, Eamon; Scharf, Thomas; Murray, Michael
Titel	Ageing in Changing Community Contexts: Cross-Border Perspectives from Rural Ireland and Northern Ireland
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 28 (2012) 4, S.347-357 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.01.012
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Rural Areas; Social Change; Regional Characteristics; Context Effect; Older Adults; Aging (Individuals); Social Integration; Rural Population; Rural Sociology; Community Services; Rural Economics; Economic Factors; Social Environment; Case Studies; Interviews; Comparative Analysis; Community Change; Economic Change; Citizen Participation; Community Influence; Focus Groups; Ireland; United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Sozialer Wandel; Regionaler Faktor; Älterer Erwachsener; Aging; Altern; Soziale Integration; Landbevölkerung; Agrarsoziologie; Gemeindenahe Versorgung; Ökonomischer Faktor; Soziales Umfeld; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ökonomischer Wandel; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Irland
Abstract	Ongoing demographic, social, economic and cultural changes point to the dynamic and continually changing contexts of rural areas in Ireland and Northern Ireland. However, the influence of such changes on the lives of older people remains under-explored, particularly the question of how older people perceive, connect to and engage in their communities. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with indigenous and non-indigenous older people in three case-study sites in Ireland, Northern Ireland and a cross-border region, this article presents a comparative analysis of how changing community contexts have shaped the lives of rural-dwelling older people. The analysis focuses on four key areas: economic structure and service access; social relations and social cohesion; meanings and attachments; and community engagement. While the findings demonstrate that some dimensions of participants' lives were affected by complex economic and social changes, others dimensions were connected in a more significant way to life course and residential history and the desire to maintain community capacity. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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