Downsizing Possessions for Residential Moves in Later Life

为以后的生活搬迁而缩小财产规模

• 批准号: 7466246
• 负责人: David J Ekerdt
• 金额: $ 31.53万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7466246
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Adult; Advocate; Age; Aging; Area; Case Manager; Clinical; Clutterings; Cognitive; Communities; Data Collection; Data Set; Development; Elderly; Emotions; Exercise; Financial compensation; General Population; Goals; Hand; Health; Health Personnel; Household; Housing; Human Development; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Kansas; Knowledge; Lawyers; Life; Living Arrangement; Michigan; Modeling; Persons; Pilot Projects; Procedures; Process; Provider; Psyche structure; Public Health; Range; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Role; Self Care; Site; Social Work; Specialist; Structure; Time; Ursidae Family; Voice; age related; aged; base; design; experience; heuristics; interest; novel; programs

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.

描述(申请人提供)：这个项目的目标是调查占有管理、处置和处置，以适应年龄的脆弱性，当人们在以后的生活中搬到更小的住处。完成这些任务可以解放老年人继续独立生活，并在更合适的住房。在R03类型的试点研究中获得了主题的描述性工具并明确了研究程序后，下一步是对老年人帮助缩小家庭规模所使用的经验、策略和自我表征进行定性访谈研究。就其总体理论框架而言，这项研究将对有补偿的选择性优化的巴尔特斯模型进行具体领域的应用，将裁员界定为人类发展的问题，在能力下降和资源减少的情况下，这一问题会引起代理的行使。具体目标是：(1)描述那些完成搬家的人所感知的家庭缩编的策略和情绪；(2)通过考察搬家环境作为财产解聚的实际背景来确认此类事件的发展特征；(3)确定人们在有限的时间和知识的限制下用来解散的启发式(心理捷径)；(4)描述自我表征并探索其作为完成剥夺的资源的作用；以及(5)在进行、组织和顺序占有管理的过程中描述正在进行的缩编的特征。 在生命重组研究方面具有专业知识的研究人员将在堪萨斯州劳伦斯和密歇根州底特律周围地区进行两个地点的研究。将对所有数据收集、管理和分析进行统一设计。分析单位将是150户因住宅搬迁而缩小规模的家庭。项目招募将捕获一系列自然发生的类型。工作人员将对过去4至8个月搬到较小住处的100户老年人(65岁及以上)进行半结构化访谈。此外，还将在搬家前和搬家后分别对另外50个家庭进行两次采访，因为人们实际上面临着手头的任务。对告密者账户的分析将阐明个人如何激励、执行和评估这些转变。该项目直接满足住房专家和临床医生的需求，将推进一项更具包容性的研究计划，即财产管理和资产剥离，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，这些信息可用于催化解散和便利住房搬迁，以此作为更好地自我照顾的手段。与公共健康相关：该项目说明了老年人为迁居而缩小家庭规模的各种做法，这一过程使他们能够重新安置到他们可以独立生活的住房和生活安排中，更好地管理健康限制，并保持活力。这项研究的结果将对普通老年人和老年人以及老年护理经理、卫生人员、社会服务提供者、住房专家和律师具有广泛的兴趣和帮助。