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Toward Understanding Person-Place Transactions in Neighborhoods: A Qualitative-Participatory Geospatial Approach.

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Emerging research regarding aging in neighborhoods emphasizes the importance of this context for well-being; however, in-depth information about the nature of person-place relationships is lacking. The interwoven and complex nature of person and place points to methods that can examine these relationships in situ and explore meanings attached to places. Participatory geospatial methods can capture situated details about place that are not verbalized during interviews or otherwise discerned, and qualitative methods can explore interpretations, both helping to generate deep understandings of the relationships between person and place. This article describes a combined qualitative-geospatial approach for studying of older adults in neighborhoods and investigates the qualitative-geospatial approach developed, including its utility and feasibility in exploring person-place transactions in neighborhoods.

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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The Gerontologist
Volume
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58
Issue
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1
Number of Pages
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89-100
Date Published
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2018
ISSN Number
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0016-9013
URL
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https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/geront/gnx064
DOI
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10.1093/geront/gnx064
Short Title
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Gerontologist
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