Conflicts, friendship cliques and territorial displays in senior center environments

The Influence of Place on Everyday Life: Observations of Persons with Dementia in Regular Day Care and at the Green Care Farm

“…Several studies have demonstrated the relationships that exist among the environment, staff, and residents in institutions such as asylums and prisons [11] [14], long-term care facilities [15] [16], and other facilities such as regular day care organizations [17] [18] [19]. Most of these studies have focused on environment (including both physical and social dimensions) and quality of life in regard to persons with dementia [20] [21] [22] [23] or place identity as an important component of older people's self-identity [24] [25] [26]. However, research about day care services for persons with dementia and the influence of these places on their everyday life remains limited in Scandinavia and Norway, and especially day care for persons with dementia at green care farms.…”

Understanding How and Why Spatial Segregation Endures: A Systematic Review of Recent Research on Intergroup Relations at a Micro-Ecological Scale

“…The next most frequently studied contexts were leisure or recreational public places (N = 16). Such places were widely varying and included an open beach in post-apartheid South Africa (Dixon & Durrheim, 2003;Durrheim, 2005;Durrheim & Dixon, 2005) and senior citizen centres in a USA western state (Salari, Brown, & Eaton, 2006). They also included public urban places in Northern Ireland (N = 2;Abdelmonem & McWhinney, 2015;Nagle, 2009), Spain (Pérez Tejera, 2012), Australia (Priest, Paradies, Ferdinand, Rouhani, & Kelaher, 2014), the USA (Spitz, 2015), the Philippines (Garrido, 2013), South Africa (Besharati & Foster, 2013), and England (Kesten, Cochrane, Mohan, & Neal, 2011), as well as green public places in Chile (Krellenberg, Welz, & Reyes-Päcke, 2014), pubs and nightclubs in South Africa (Tredoux & Dixon, 2009) and the USA (Hunter, 2010), and shopping malls in Chile (Stillerman & Salcedo, 2012).…”

“…In terms of social categories, research has mainly studied the everyday local patterns of segregation between different ethnic groups (N = 27; e.g., Arjona & Checa, 2008;Durrheim & Dixon, 2005;Kesten et al, 2011;Lewis, 2012;Ramiah et al, 2015;Swyngedouw, 2013;Tredoux & Dixon, 2009). For this, it has focused on students (e.g., Alexander & Tredoux, 2010), beachgoers (e.g., Dixon & Durrheim, 2003), senior centre attendants (Salari et al, 2006) and public transport users (e.g., Arjona & Checa, 2008;Swyngedouw, 2013). However, various authors have also investigated micro-ecological segregation in relation to religious categories (N = 5;Abdelmonem & McWhinney, 2015;McKeown et al, 2012;McKeown et al, 2016;Nagle, 2009;Orr et al, 2012), socioeconomic status (N = 4; Garrido, 2013;Krellenberg et al, 2014;Pérez Tejera, 2012;Stillerman & Salcedo, 2012), gender (N = 1; Messner & Bozada-Deas, 2009), and gender and ethnic background (N = 1; Rodriguez-Navarro et al, 2014).…”

Sense of belonging to the community in continuing care retirement communities and adult day care centers: The role of the social network

“…The absence of research on SCB in CCRCs is particularly surprising in light of the fact that one of the "pull" factors for older adults who transition to a CCRC is the opportunity to meet new friends, whereas a major "push" factor is the limited opportunities for social interaction in one's original community of residence (Bekhet, Zauszniewski, & Nakhla, 2009;Krout, Moen, Holmes, Oggins, & Bowen, 2002). Similar to the case of CCRCs, there is research to demonstrate the existence of friendships and cliques in ADCCs (Salari, Brown, & Eaton, 2006;Williams & Roberts, 1995), but SCB has not yet been addressed.…”