Naslov
Experience and Sense of Home in Oldest – Old Retirement Home Residents from Zagreb, Croatia

Autori
Perinić Lewis, Ana ; Škarić-Jurić, Tatjana, Despot Lučanin, Jasminka ; Smolić, Šime

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
IUAES Congress 2020 Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology (Šibenik, Croatia, March 09-14, 2021, online congress) - Book of Abstracts / - Online : Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia ; International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) ; World Anthroplogical Union (WAU), 2021, 155-155

Skup
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Congress 2020 "Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology"

Mjesto i datum
Šibenik, Hrvatska, 09.03.2021. - 14.03.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
aging, longevity, old persons, retirement home, sense of home, project HECUBA

Sažetak
Recent research on aging focus mainly on the experiences of spaces and places in late life. The retirement home has a dual spatial nature as an institution and as a home, producing a mixture of institutional and homelike atmosphere. Private life there is concentrated in limited space, so there are numerous environmental, social and personal characteristics that affect the perceptions of space and home life of elderly residents. The presentation is part of the interdisciplinary project ˝Health, cultural, and biological determinants of longevity: anthropological perspective on survival in very old age - HECUBA˝ (HRZZ IP-2018-01-2497). We show the results of an extensive anthropological survey conducted in 2007/09 in 13 retirement homes in Zagreb, encompassing 310 persons (25.5% males) without dementia (according to Folstein test scores), aged 85 - 101 years. The Quality of Life Questionnaire included structured questions and scales, along with open-ended questions. The aim of this study was to determine the contribution of psychosocial factors to the life satisfaction in old persons, predominantly based on analyses of the responses to the open-ended questions. We identified and interpreted the following effects of the living environment on old persons' life satisfaction: perceptions of home space (private and semi-private residents' rooms, shared spaces, semi-public areas), advantages and disadvantages of home space and levels of privacy, the daily use of the space through participation in a variety of activities. In addition, we focused on the respondents' attitudes and emotions towards their "own home" and activities from their previous home-life (memories, regrets, nostalgia).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita, Psihologija, Demografija, Etnologija i antropologija

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