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Restoring and Sustaining Home: The Impact of Home Modifications on the Meaning of Home for Older People

Journal of Housing For the Elderly

Author: Tanner, B., Tilse, C., de Jonge, D.
Year: 2008
Type: Journal Article

Abstract:

ABSTRACT The importance of a supportive home environment to successful aging has been well-established in the literature, with home modifications increasingly acknowledged as ways of removing barriers to function and increasing independence for older people. Home modification literature and practice primarily focus on the home environment as a physical space in which to perform tasks and on the impact of modification on competencies and function. Home, however, is much more than a physical environment. Within a transactive framework, people and places are seen as engaged in a dynamic, reciprocal relationship through which home becomes a place of significant personal meaning. Through a qualitative framework, this study examines the experience of older people living in the community who are recipients of a home modification service. It explores the impact modifying the physical environment has on their experience of home as a place of meaning and provides insight into how home modifications can strengthen the home as a place of personal and social meaning as well as improve safety and comfort for the older person at home.


Further Details

Publish Dates 2008/09/11
Full Title Journal of Housing for the Elderly
Pages 195-215
Volume 22
Issue 3
Publisher Routledge
ISBN/ISSN 0276-3893
Electronic Resource Number 10.1080/02763890802232048
Access Date 2013/10/15

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