NDLI: Single older men in disadvantaged households: Narratives of meaning around everyday life

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Russell, Cherry Porter, Maree
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	Few studies have investigated how older people themselves conceptualize and talk about what they do with their time. Even fewer have addressed such issues from the perspective of older people whose living arrangements and lifestyles diverge from majority, middle-class pathways. This paper draws on in-depth interview data from the Ageing Men’s Health Project, a three-year ethnographic study of the health, housing, and service use of low income, single, non-homeowning men aged 50 years and over, living in the inner city of Sydney, Australia. Among other topics, the men were asked to describe an average day and otherwise elaborate on the everyday circumstances of their lives. Findings highlight the extent to which the men’s everyday lives are constrained and curtailed by economic disadvantage and health deficits. At the same time, the men invest their activities with a range of sociocultural meanings that do not always match professionally constructed categories and understandings. In particular, social relationships with other men appear to be central to the meanings they confer on everyday life.
Starting Page	359
Ending Page	371
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01635158
Journal	Ageing International
Volume Number	28
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	1936606X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2003-01-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Social Sciences Aging
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health (social science)

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