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Facing Fear Through Making Connections as We Age
Older residents often experience disruption in family relationships and social networks due to isolation once they move into public housing communities. While the need for social contact continues, the opportunity may diminish. Older African-American women living in one housing community attempted t...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743116/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2309 |
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author | Knight, Becky Noah, Amanda Bowland, Sharon |
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description | Older residents often experience disruption in family relationships and social networks due to isolation once they move into public housing communities. While the need for social contact continues, the opportunity may diminish. Older African-American women living in one housing community attempted to cope with their personal safety fears through social isolation (Bowland, 2015). Women in the study (N = 25) were survivors of one or more forms of interpersonal trauma, including childhood abuse, sexual assault and domestic violence. In contrast, a few women in the same sample spontaneously formed social networks within the community. This qualitative investigation will examine how the women adapted to an isolating and unsafe environment by developing social connections. As a social determinant of health, developing healthy social networks inside a housing community can reduce fear and improve well-being and quality of life for low-income older residents who are aging-in-place. |
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spelling | pubmed-77431162020-12-21 Facing Fear Through Making Connections as We Age Knight, Becky Noah, Amanda Bowland, Sharon Innov Aging Abstracts Older residents often experience disruption in family relationships and social networks due to isolation once they move into public housing communities. While the need for social contact continues, the opportunity may diminish. Older African-American women living in one housing community attempted to cope with their personal safety fears through social isolation (Bowland, 2015). Women in the study (N = 25) were survivors of one or more forms of interpersonal trauma, including childhood abuse, sexual assault and domestic violence. In contrast, a few women in the same sample spontaneously formed social networks within the community. This qualitative investigation will examine how the women adapted to an isolating and unsafe environment by developing social connections. As a social determinant of health, developing healthy social networks inside a housing community can reduce fear and improve well-being and quality of life for low-income older residents who are aging-in-place. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7743116/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2309 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Knight, Becky Noah, Amanda Bowland, Sharon Facing Fear Through Making Connections as We Age |
title | Facing Fear Through Making Connections as We Age |
title_full | Facing Fear Through Making Connections as We Age |
title_fullStr | Facing Fear Through Making Connections as We Age |
title_full_unstemmed | Facing Fear Through Making Connections as We Age |
title_short | Facing Fear Through Making Connections as We Age |
title_sort | facing fear through making connections as we age |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743116/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2309 |
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