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‘I like to go out to be energised by different people’: an exploratory analysis of mobility and wellbeing in later life

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This paper adds to the growing number of studies about mobility and wellbeing in later life. It proposes a broader understanding of mobility than movement through physical space. Drawing on the ‘mobility turn’ in the social sciences, we conceptualise mobility as the overcoming of any type of distance between a here and a there, which can be situated in physical, electronic, social, psychological or other kinds of space. Using qualitative data from 128 older people in County Durham, England, w...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1017/S0144686X10000498

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SOGE
Sub department:
Transport Studies Unit
Oxford college:
St Anne's College
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Economic and Social Research Council More from this funder
Age Concern England More from this funder
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
Journal:
Ageing and Society Journal website
Volume:
31
Issue:
5
Pages:
758-781
Publication date:
2011-07-01
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EISSN:
1469-1779
ISSN:
0144-686X
Language:
English
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2014-06-13

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