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Driving retirement and the quality of life of older men and women living in Metropolitan Detroit.

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正題名/作者:	Driving retirement and the quality of life of older men and women living in Metropolitan Detroit./
作者:	Pellerito, Joseph Michael, Jr.
面頁冊數:	236 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3327.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-08A.
Subject:	Gerontology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3320211
ISBN:	9780549719083

Driving retirement and the quality of life of older men and women living in Metropolitan Detroit.
Pellerito, Joseph Michael, Jr.

Driving retirement and the quality of life of older men and women living in Metropolitan Detroit. - 236 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3327.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wayne State University, 2008.

Contemporary research indicates that elderly women and men view driving retirement as a negative experience with numerous disabling consequences resulting in decreased quality of life (Davey, 2007). Scholarship on successful aging, however, shows that seniors generally define aging neutrally or positively (Katz & Marshall, 2003). Links between driving retirement and these aging identities have not been studied in full. Further, researchers have relied upon quantitative research methods that lack the kind of rich description gleaned from qualitative inquiries. Reducing driving retirement to a finite list of negative consequences does not fully convey meanings and lived experiences. Driving retirement also has not been studied systematically against a sociocultural backdrop that could foster an understanding of historical, cultural, and social contexts for this process. For instance, researchers have glossed over how social locations, such as gender, age, race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, marital status, and residential location influence driving retirement. In this study qualitative research methods were employed to remedy some of these gaps in the literature. More specifically, this project explored the relationships between participants' social locations and their self-defined meanings of driving and driving retirement. This study also attempted to determine what participants perceive as consequences of and responses to driving retirement. Data in this study were derived from interviews with 30 elderly women and men living in Metropolitan Detroit in 2007. Interviewees reported that driving had a profoundly positive influence on participants' lives including on their relationships, social networks, everyday experiences, productivity, and social status. Driving retirement garnered negative, positive, and mixed consequences. The discoveries of positive and mixed effects provide new perspectives not previously reported in the literature. Participants generally denied that aging or old age led to driving retirement. Instead participants overwhelmingly believed that disabling health conditions provided the impetus for their driving retirement and a whole constellation of other life changes. Finally, participants reported that they had varied coping responses for dealing with the negative consequences of driving retirement. Findings from this study may further national and international efforts to develop recommendations for professionals working with older Americans on strategies to plan for, and contend with, driving retirement.

ISBN: 9780549719083Subjects--Topical Terms:

168436
Gerontology.

Driving retirement and the quality of life of older men and women living in Metropolitan Detroit.
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