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Seniors in the City: On the Periphery of a Big Issue

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author presents the outcome of the fi rst ‘qualitative’ stage of the project ‘Old Age in Space: Regeneration, Gentrifi cation and Social Exclusion as New Issues of Environmental Gerontology’. She responds to research questions on how seniors residing in urban centres interpret the town environment, contemporary urban processes, ageing and old age, and how they maintain control over their situation given their state of health, physical performance, fi nancial resources, and the specifi c spatial resources of urban neighbourhoods (personal strategies). In the article the author briefly sums up the theoretical starting points of the issue, describes the focus and methodology of the research project, and presents the research’s fi ndings on changes to urban space, population structure, local social networks and seniors’ attachment-to-place.

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