Place-making with older persons: Establishing sense-of-place through participatory community mapping workshops
Place-making with older persons: Establishing sense-of-place through participatory community mapping workshops
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.07.007
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发表时间：
2016-11-01
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5.4
通讯作者：
Sixsmith, Andrew
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作者：
Fang, Mei Lan;Woolrych, Ryan;Sixsmith, Andrew
就地养老原则强调创造可持续环境的重要性，使老年人能够保持归属感、自主性、独立性、安全感。简单地改变建筑环境不足以为老年人创造更具包容性的环境，因为为老年人创造“有意义的”场所涉及到超越物理空间问题的社会心理和文化问题。本文阐述了基于社区的参与式研究方法的应用，特别是参与式社区测绘研讨会（PCMWs），如何用于获取场所经验，确定进入建筑环境的便利因素和障碍，并在加拿大西部一个新的经济适用房开发项目中，为老年人和服务提供者共同创造基于场所的解决方案。基于授权和建立关系的原则，54名参与者进行了四次PCMWs （N = 38名老年人；N = 16名当地服务提供者）。社区发展计划包括(i)体验小组在社区内散步，以了解地点和社区，以及（ii）绘图练习，参与者在新的经济适用房发展和周围社区的背景下阐述他们基于地点的需求。对话被数字化记录、转录并进行主题分析。视觉数据，包括在体验式集体散步中拍摄的照片，被分类并整合到叙述中，以说明地点的意义。PCMWs使老年住房和社会护理专业人员以及决策者能够与老年租户共同构建知识，促进地方行动和变革。与会者确定的关键主题包括：确定保健和福利方面的服务和需求、有社会参与的机会和克服跨文化挑战。我们发现PCMWs是一种确定需求和资源以及产生知识的微妙方法。爱思唯尔2016年版权所有版权所有。
Principles of aging-in-place emphasize the importance of creating sustainable environments that enable older people to maintain a sense of belonging, autonomy, independence, safety and security. Simply altering the built environment is insufficient for creating more inclusive environments for older persons, as creating 'meaningful' places for aging involves consideration of psychosocial and cultural issues that go beyond issues of physical space. This paper illustrates how applications of community-based participatory research methods, in particular, participatory community mapping workshops (PCMWs), can be used to access experiences of place, identify facilitators and barriers to accessing the built environment and co-create place-based solutions among older people and service providers in a new affordable housing development in Western Canada. Founded on tenets of empowerment and relationship building, four PCMWs were undertaken with 54 participants (N = 38 older people; N = 16 local service providers). PCMWs comprised (i) experiential group walks around the community to access understandings of place and community and (ii) mapping exercises, whereby participants articulated their place-based needs within the context of the new affordable housing development and surrounding neighbourhood. Dialogues were digitally recorded, transcribed and thematically analysed. Visual data, including photographs taken during experiential group walks were categorized and integrated into the narrative to illustrate place meanings. PCMWs enabled senior housing and social care professionals and decision-makers to co-construct knowledge with older tenants that facilitated place action and change. Key themes identified by participants included: identifying services and needs for health and wellbeing, having opportunities for social participation and overcoming cross-cultural challenges. PCMWs were found to be a nuanced method of identifying needs and resources and generating knowledge. Crown Copyright (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.