Downsizing Possessions for Residential Moves in Later Life

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的目标是调查拥有管理，处置和处置作为适应年龄的脆弱性，当人们在以后的生活中搬到较小的宿舍。完成这些任务后，老年人可以继续独立生活，并有更合适的住房。在R 03型试点研究中获得了主题的描述性设施和明确的研究程序后，下一个风险是对老年人用来帮助缩小家庭规模的经验、策略和自我陈述进行定性访谈研究。就其总体理论框架而言，该研究将在特定领域应用Baltes模型的选择性优化与补偿，将裁员视为人类发展问题，在能力下降和资源减少的情况下唤起代理权的行使。具体目标是：（1）描述完成搬家的人所感知到的家庭缩小的策略和情绪;（2）通过考察搬家环境作为财产减少积累的实际背景来确认这种情节的发展特征;（3）确定人们在有限的时间和知识的限制下用来解散的心理捷径;（4）描述自我陈述，并探讨其作为资源的作用，以实现剥夺;（5）表征缩编过程中的一个子集的情况下，因为他们承担，组织，并序列占有管理。 在生命重组研究方面有专长的调查人员将在堪萨斯州的劳伦斯和密歇根州的底特律附近地区进行一项两地研究。所有数据的收集、管理和分析都将采用统一的设计。分析的单位将是150户家庭，这些家庭将因住宅搬迁而缩小规模。项目招募将捕获一系列自然发生的类型。工作人员将在100个老年人（65岁及以上）家庭中进行半结构化访谈，这些老年人在过去4至8个月内搬到较小的宿舍。此外，还将在搬迁前和搬迁后对另外50户家庭进行两次访谈，因为人们实际上面临着手头的任务。对被调查者叙述的分析将阐明个人如何激励、执行和评估这些转变。该项目直接解决了住房专家和临床医生提出的需求，将推进一个更具包容性的关于财产管理和资产剥离的研究计划，以适应初期或预期的限制。该项目将为公众以及卫生和社会服务专业人员提供实用信息，可用于促进解散和促进住宅搬迁，以改善自我保健。 公共卫生相关性：该项目阐明了老年人使用的各种做法，以缩小他们的家庭居住移动，一个过程，使他们能够搬迁到住房和生活安排，他们可以独立生活，更好地管理健康限制，并保持活力。这项研究的结果将是广泛的兴趣和援助，老年人和老年人的一般公众和老年护理管理人员，卫生人员，社会服务提供者，住房专家和律师。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to investigate possession management, disposition, and disposal as an adaptation to the vulnerabilities of age when people move to smaller quarters in later life. The accomplishment of these tasks can free elders to continue to live independently and in more suitable housing. Having gained a descriptive facility with the topic and clarified research procedure during a R03-type pilot study, the next venture is a qualitative interview study of the experience, strategies, and self-representations that older people employ to assist the downsizing of the household. For its overall theoretical framework, the research will undertake a domain-specific application of the Baltes model of selective optimization with compensation, framing the downsizing as a problem of human development that evokes the exercise of agency amid declining capacities and reduced resources. Specific aims are to: (1) Describe the strategies and emotions of household downsizing as perceived by those who accomplish a move; (2) Confirm the developmental character of such episodes by examining move circumstances as practical contexts for the de-accumulation of possessions; (3) Identify the heuristics- mental shortcuts-that people use to disband under constraints of limited time and knowledge; (4) Describe self-representations and explore their role as resources for the accomplishment of dispossession; and (5) Characterize downsizing in process among a subset of cases as they undertake, organize, and sequence possession management. Investigators with expertise in the study of life reorganization will conduct a two-site study in areas around Lawrence, Kansas, and Detroit, Michigan. There will be a unitary design for all data collection, management, and analysis. The units of analysis will be 150 households that will have downsized for a residential move. Project recruitment will capture a range of naturally occurring types. Staff will conduct semi-structured interviews within 100 households of older persons (age 65 and older) who have moved to smaller quarters in the last four to eight months. In addition, there will be interviews in another 50 households twice before and once after the move as people actually confront the tasks at hand. The analysis of informants' accounts will clarify how individuals motivate, execute, and evaluate these transitions. This project, which directly addresses needs voiced by housing specialists and clinicians, will advance a more inclusive research program on possession management and divestiture as adaptive for incipient or anticipated limitations. The project will generate practical information for the public and for health and social service professionals that can be applied to catalyze disbandment and facilitate residential relocation as a means to better self care. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project illuminates the various practices that older adults use to downsize their households for a residential move, a process that allows them to relocate to housing and living arrangements where they can live independently, better manage health limitations, and maintain vitality. Findings of this study will be of widespread interest and assistance to the general public of aged and aging adults and to geriatric care managers, health personnel, social service providers, housing specialists, and attorneys.