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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) by Gaaark on Saturday September 16 2017, @01:14AM (3 children)
One of the things i like about "the day the earth stood still" (1950's) is the people coming down to breakfast fully dressed in suits/dresses ready for their day.
Today, you barely have time to eat on work days. On the weekend it's bacon in PJ's at best.
Here's wishing for those 3 martini lunch days: take your time.
Anyone here seen "How to succeed in business without really trying"? Love that movie too. The good old days when you could dance and sing at work and nobody looked sideways at you and ran.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday September 16 2017, @01:41AM (2 children)
That is the first Sci-Fi book I ever read, in the sixth-grade, and still one of my favorites to this day. Sure beat the hell out of that boring-ass The Hobbit.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday September 16 2017, @01:55AM (1 child)
I gotta agree:
The hobbit and the ring series don't do anything for me, but i'll probably read the Game of Thrones series again (read once, waiting to see if more books will come out. Kind of doubting it now).
I fell asleep during the hobbit movie, too. Just.not.that.good.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 16 2017, @04:20AM
I gather from reading around that the author is still toiling away on the second to last book. It's just that the skein gets more tangled with each new book and those multiplying points of view. I fear only wholesale slaughter will save the series.