Becoming homebound by choice and constraint: a mixed-methods look into ageing and mobility transitions
This paper focuses on the transition of mobility practices and more specifically how certain older individuals experience patterns of Déprises leading them to adopt a more homebound lifestyle. As individuals age and advance in their life cycle, their capacities for mobility are prone to change, alon...
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Journal of Urban Research
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| description | This paper focuses on the transition of mobility practices and more specifically how certain older individuals experience patterns of Déprises leading them to adopt a more homebound lifestyle. As individuals age and advance in their life cycle, their capacities for mobility are prone to change, along with their lifestyles. Sometimes these changes are voluntary and done in a proactive manner, sometimes they are the product of external events. In some instances, following a transition period, these changes can result in a loss of mobility capacities, a continuation or reconfiguration of activities, or sometimes even an extension of mobility capacities, and therefore autonomy. As shown in earlier research, this process takes place in ways that are as diverse as the life course of each individual. This diversity, however, is still underrepresented in research, where older adults are often studied as a block according to their age (65+, 75+). This paper aims to delve deeper into the events and process leading to transition in mobility capacities among diverse profiles of older adults living in urban and suburban environments. To do so, the paper first presents results from statistical analysis showing how mobility practices can differ in older adults of different age groups representing different moments of the life cycle. Focusing afterward on a specific profile (the Stay-at-home), the article uses interview data to illustrate how diverse events, decisions and adaptation strategies led diverse individuals to become more homebound over the course of ageing. The article exposes a diversity of situations among Stay-at-home individuals, with transitions that are chosen or suffered. We conclude on strategies this plurality of Stay-at-home use to maintain their mobility and how we can support them to help them keep their autonomy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a41e13ed4f544bda8cb036dccd3c7c02023-06-07T12:40:18ZengJournal of Urban ResearchArticulo: Journal of Urban Research1661-49412023-04-012310.4000/articulo.5034Becoming homebound by choice and constraint: a mixed-methods look into ageing and mobility transitionsMichel DesprésThis paper focuses on the transition of mobility practices and more specifically how certain older individuals experience patterns of Déprises leading them to adopt a more homebound lifestyle. As individuals age and advance in their life cycle, their capacities for mobility are prone to change, along with their lifestyles. Sometimes these changes are voluntary and done in a proactive manner, sometimes they are the product of external events. In some instances, following a transition period, these changes can result in a loss of mobility capacities, a continuation or reconfiguration of activities, or sometimes even an extension of mobility capacities, and therefore autonomy. As shown in earlier research, this process takes place in ways that are as diverse as the life course of each individual. This diversity, however, is still underrepresented in research, where older adults are often studied as a block according to their age (65+, 75+). This paper aims to delve deeper into the events and process leading to transition in mobility capacities among diverse profiles of older adults living in urban and suburban environments. To do so, the paper first presents results from statistical analysis showing how mobility practices can differ in older adults of different age groups representing different moments of the life cycle. Focusing afterward on a specific profile (the Stay-at-home), the article uses interview data to illustrate how diverse events, decisions and adaptation strategies led diverse individuals to become more homebound over the course of ageing. The article exposes a diversity of situations among Stay-at-home individuals, with transitions that are chosen or suffered. We conclude on strategies this plurality of Stay-at-home use to maintain their mobility and how we can support them to help them keep their autonomy.http://journals.openedition.org/articulo/5034AgeingAgingDaily MobilityUrban EnvironmentLifestyleMixed-Methods |
| spellingShingle | Michel Després Becoming homebound by choice and constraint: a mixed-methods look into ageing and mobility transitions Articulo: Journal of Urban Research Ageing Aging Daily Mobility Urban Environment Lifestyle Mixed-Methods |
| title | Becoming homebound by choice and constraint: a mixed-methods look into ageing and mobility transitions |
| title_full | Becoming homebound by choice and constraint: a mixed-methods look into ageing and mobility transitions |
| title_fullStr | Becoming homebound by choice and constraint: a mixed-methods look into ageing and mobility transitions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Becoming homebound by choice and constraint: a mixed-methods look into ageing and mobility transitions |
| title_short | Becoming homebound by choice and constraint: a mixed-methods look into ageing and mobility transitions |
| title_sort | becoming homebound by choice and constraint a mixed methods look into ageing and mobility transitions |
| topic | Ageing Aging Daily Mobility Urban Environment Lifestyle Mixed-Methods |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/articulo/5034 |
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