The interrelationship between place and critical life transitions in later life social exclusion: A scoping review

Urbaniak, Anna; Walsh, Kieran

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102234

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“…In empirical work, relationships with neighbours are often discussed as resources to prevent social exclusion (Marquet and Miralles-Guasch 2015), while risks might be exaggerated through service retrenchment, lack of social services, community deprivation and transport in rural settings (Warburton et al 2014), and redevelopment and relocation processes, the built environment, clustered deprivation as well as crime and safety in urban environments (Scharf et al 2002; see also Drilling et al this section for illustrative cases of the impact of redevelopment and issues around perceived safety). In their review of the interrelationships between place, exclusion and life transitions, Urbaniak and Walsh (2019) demonstrate that mediating mechanisms of place can stem from subjective and symbolic elements, social and cultural aspects, embedded service infrastructure, and environmental change. Potential circularity in the relations between the placerelationship, social exclusion and transitions are summarised in Fig.…”

Section: Transitions Exclusion and Placementioning

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The Relationship Between Place and Life-Course Transitions in Old-Age Social Exclusion: A Cross-Country Analysis

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International Perspectives on Aging

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The international literature presents growing evidence of the impact of life transitions in older age on experiences of social exclusion. Older people’s relationship with place potentially plays a mediating role in this interrelation. However, the specific mechanisms through which the older adult place relationship mediates exclusionary outcomes of life-course transitions remain poorly understood in the study of ageing. This chapter investigates how older adults’ relationship with place is interlinked with life-course transitions and old-age social exclusion. To address this interrelation, we present case studies from three different countries, Germany, Ireland and Poland, focusing on individual experiences of retirement and bereavement, and analyse the cases by drawing on the concepts of spatial agency and belonging. We conclude by examining how spatial agency and belonging can protect and empower older people at critical junctures in their lives.

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Section: Transitions Exclusion and Placementioning

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The Relationship Between Place and Life-Course Transitions in Old-Age Social Exclusion: A Cross-Country Analysis

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“…• A holistic approach is needed to harness place to support older people during these periods. loneliness and in sometimes financial insecurity; and forced migration has been found to be related to deficient social connectivity, difficulties in accessing services and identify exclusion (Urbaniak & Walsh, 2019).…”

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“…Older people's life trajectories can encompass an array of changes and fluctuations related to health and well‐being that are punctuated by major transitions (Grenier, 2012 ). Moreover, such transitions have in some instances been linked to multiple exclusionary impacts (Cavalli et al., 2007 ; Urbaniak & Walsh, 2019 ). In the context of this study, for example: the onset of dementia has been associated with stigmatisation, and displacement from relational and economic spheres; bereavement has been linked with impacts on social well‐being, loneliness and in sometimes financial insecurity; and forced migration has been found to be related to deficient social connectivity, difficulties in accessing services and identify exclusion (Urbaniak & Walsh, 2019 ).…”

Section: Importance Of Place In Later Life Outcomesmentioning

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“…Moreover, such transitions have in some instances been linked to multiple exclusionary impacts (Cavalli et al., 2007 ; Urbaniak & Walsh, 2019 ). In the context of this study, for example: the onset of dementia has been associated with stigmatisation, and displacement from relational and economic spheres; bereavement has been linked with impacts on social well‐being, loneliness and in sometimes financial insecurity; and forced migration has been found to be related to deficient social connectivity, difficulties in accessing services and identify exclusion (Urbaniak & Walsh, 2019 ).…”

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“…While there is a paucity of research explicitly exploring the interrelationships between place, exclusion and CLTs, a recent review offers insights into these dynamics for dementia, bereavement and forced migration (Urbaniak & Walsh, 2019 ). Place was found to act as a setting of disadvantages arising from CLTs (Song, 2017 ), and as an area of life where people can be excluded as a result of transitions (e.g.…”

Section: Importance Of Place In Later Life Outcomesmentioning

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Policy and practise perspectives on older adult critical life‐course transitions and place in Ireland

Urbaniak

Walsh

2020

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Major life transitions-such as ill-health, bereavement and relocation-can give rise to multifaceted forms of social exclusion for older people (Dannefer, 2003). This can result in subsequent and profound impacts for later life health and well-being. Rooted in complex sets of bio-psychosocial factors, these transitions often implicate individual-, community-and structural-level mechanisms that increase risks of disadvantage, impinging on physical, mental and social health outcomes (Baars et al., 2016;Settersten, 2018). With place increasingly evident as an orientating concept within older adult health and social care policy (Manthorpe et al., 2008), a focus on how older people relate to, are influenced by and connect with their local environments may offer new and important pathways to provide support during transitions. However, despite the rapid increase in age-friendly and community care programmes, there has been little consideration of

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Towards a Structural Embeddedness of Space in the Framework of the Social Exclusion of Older People

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Combating social exclusion of older adults is a key objective of European social policy. But from the beginning of the debate, social exclusion has mainly been interpreted as arising from economic circumstances. Doubts have been raised as to whether this narrow focus contributes to solving the problems identified. In particular, spatial aspects come to the fore, highlighting the fact that exclusion always happens in a specific place. However, spatial exclusion is often reduced to a territorial concept of ‘where’ the exclusion takes place. – but it is simplistic to state that everything happens in a space. The aim of this chapter is twofold. First, it presents a theoretical model, developed during and through the ROSEnet COST Action. The model integrates dimensions of age, space and exclusion in one perspective – the ASE Triangle. Second, this chapter explores the potential of the ASE Triangle to enhance our understanding of two specific European case studies of older people’s exclusion, in Greater Dublin – Ireland, and Nicosia – Cyprus. By ‘upgrading space’ as a theory-led idea we contribute to and challenge existing (human) gerontological theory of space. Similar to the exploration of a relational vision of space, our model does not only consider “experience” of space exclusion, but offers the possibility to simultaneously encompass it in societal processes.

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The interrelationship between place and critical life transitions in later life social exclusion: A scoping review

Cited by 14 publications

References 71 publications

The Relationship Between Place and Life-Course Transitions in Old-Age Social Exclusion: A Cross-Country Analysis

The Relationship Between Place and Life-Course Transitions in Old-Age Social Exclusion: A Cross-Country Analysis

Policy and practise perspectives on older adult critical life‐course transitions and place in Ireland

Towards a Structural Embeddedness of Space in the Framework of the Social Exclusion of Older People

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