Exclusion in Very Old Age : The Impact of Three Critical Life Events
This paper focuses on relational exclusion (i.e. isolation and non-participation in social activities) in very old age. Based on a five-year study of an octogenarian cohort, the authors investigate the impact of three critical life events (deterioration of health, death of a close relative, entry in...
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| author | Stefano Cavalli Jean-François Bickel Christian J. Lalive d´Epinay |
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| description | This paper focuses on relational exclusion (i.e. isolation and non-participation in social activities) in very old age. Based on a five-year study of an octogenarian cohort, the authors investigate the impact of three critical life events (deterioration of health, death of a close relative, entry into a nursing home) on relational life and social involvement. With advancing age, older people withdraw from some social activities, but their relationships with their family and friends remain stable. Life events have a stimulative effect on the support network (especially of family), and only the deterioration of health curbs social activity. This would seem to confirm the existence of a process of disengagement stemming more from the older people’s functional or sensory disabilities than from an individual choice. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-25ecb938cdbc49dd9675f63bcb429fa22022-12-22T03:06:28ZengLinköping University Electronic PressInternational Journal of Ageing and Later Life1652-86702007-07-012110.3384/ijal.1652-8670.07219Exclusion in Very Old Age : The Impact of Three Critical Life EventsStefano Cavalli0Jean-François Bickel1Christian J. Lalive d´Epinay2 Centre for Interdiscipli-nary Gerontology, University of Geneva, Switzerland/Department of Sociology, University of Ge-neva, Switzerland Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland/Centre for Interdiscipli-nary Gerontology, University of Geneva, Switzerland/Department of Sociology, University of Ge-neva, Switzerland Centre for Interdiscipli-nary Gerontology, University of Geneva, Switzerland/Department of Sociology, University of Ge-neva, Switzerland This paper focuses on relational exclusion (i.e. isolation and non-participation in social activities) in very old age. Based on a five-year study of an octogenarian cohort, the authors investigate the impact of three critical life events (deterioration of health, death of a close relative, entry into a nursing home) on relational life and social involvement. With advancing age, older people withdraw from some social activities, but their relationships with their family and friends remain stable. Life events have a stimulative effect on the support network (especially of family), and only the deterioration of health curbs social activity. This would seem to confirm the existence of a process of disengagement stemming more from the older people’s functional or sensory disabilities than from an individual choice.https://journal.ep.liu.se/IJAL/article/view/1161exclusionlife eventshealtholdest oldlongitudinal study |
| spellingShingle | Stefano Cavalli Jean-François Bickel Christian J. Lalive d´Epinay Exclusion in Very Old Age : The Impact of Three Critical Life Events International Journal of Ageing and Later Life exclusion life events health oldest old longitudinal study |
| title | Exclusion in Very Old Age : The Impact of Three Critical Life Events |
| title_full | Exclusion in Very Old Age : The Impact of Three Critical Life Events |
| title_fullStr | Exclusion in Very Old Age : The Impact of Three Critical Life Events |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exclusion in Very Old Age : The Impact of Three Critical Life Events |
| title_short | Exclusion in Very Old Age : The Impact of Three Critical Life Events |
| title_sort | exclusion in very old age the impact of three critical life events |
| topic | exclusion life events health oldest old longitudinal study |
| url | https://journal.ep.liu.se/IJAL/article/view/1161 |
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