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Senior citizens are shaping the way neighbourhoods evolve and grow, all in the name of maintaining deeper connections to their communities as they age, according to one Western researcher's work inside a pair of London neighbourhoods.
"We were looking at how the built-in social environment in London either supports or holds barriers to seniors being socially engaged and participating in activities," said School of Occupational Therapy professor Carri Hand, whose work looked at Westmount and Old South neighbourhoods in London. "We focused on social connections and activities, seeing how they interacted."
Through interviews with seniors, and the use of GPS tracking to follow their movements, Hand found older adults are creating our communities through casual social interactions, helping others and taking community action. From those three areas, Hand has revealed some common truths about these particular neighbourhoods.
Seniors expressed deep connections to physical places in neighbourhoods – restaurants, cafes, parks, libraries. Everyday neighbourhood activities, such as shopping or walking, appeared key to maintaining a sense of connection to the neighbourhood and in developing informal social ties.
It turns out old people are not worthless.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday September 16 2017, @12:43AM (1 child)
I love going to old people bars, except that the stereotype about them being set in their ways tends to be true.
A buddy and I once went to one of those places, where the regs spend their retirement and VA checks drinking beer all day every day. Well, my buddy and I went in and had some friendly chats with the folks, and then things went South when we put our dicks in the mashed potatoes and turned the topic of conversation to the exact circumstances of Hitler's death.
We emptied out the place faster than a fat kid empties out a bag of cheetoes.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 16 2017, @02:07PM
Old folks, hell. Dead people shaped the town I live in. You can't find any of the city founders anywhere - they're all dead!! No imagination, at all. They found a crossroads, with one major highway going north and south, and a minor highway going east and west. Build a school, a bank, a grocery, and call it a town. At it's height, the town had a blinking red light at the crossroads. That light has come down though - turns out that it costs money to keep it lit. Dead people. I doubt that you'd get any response from any of them if you put your dick in their mashed potatoes, or anywhere else for that matter.