At home in the city

• Verfasst von: Torres, Stacy [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: At home in the city
• Titelzusatz: growing old in urban America
• Verf.angabe: Stacy Torres
• Verlagsort: Oakland, California
• Verlag: University of California Press
• E-Jahr: 2025
• Jahr: [2025]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 345 Seiten)
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Schrift/Sprache: In English
• ISBN: 978-0-520-96352-8
• DOI: doi:10.1525/9780520963528
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Torres, Stacy, 1980 - : At home in the city. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2025. - xvii, 345 pages
• Sach-SW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
• K10plus-PPN: 1909098310
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

"To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped with health setbacks, depression, gentrification, financial struggles, the accumulated losses of neighbors, friends, and family, and other everyday challenges. The sensitive portrait Torres paints in At Home in the City moves us beyond stereotypes of older people as either rich and pampered or downtrodden and frail to capture the multilayered complexity of late life. These pages chronicle how a nondescript bakery in Manhattan served as a public living room, providing company to ease loneliness and a sympathetic ear to witness the monumental and mundane struggles of late life. Through years of careful observation, Torres peels away the layers of this oft-neglected social world and explores the constellation of relationships and experiences that Western culture often renders invisible or frames as a problem. At Home in the City strikes a realistic balance as it highlights how people find support, flex their resilience, and assert their importance in their communities in old age"--