TY - JOUR
T1 - An older woman in the local community in Russia
T2 - the neighborhood, non-government organizations and the public utilities sector
AU - Grigoryeva, I. A.
AU - Kelasyev, O. V.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The article probes into the development of local self-organization of retired women, actively involved in resolving housing issues at their place of residence in Saint-Petersburg. The socio-spatial approach to aging, also referred to as «aging in a place / in a community» serves the theoretical framework. This type of aging requires an active approach to the habitual environment of the elderly and their support. It is the groups of older women that generate activists who have free time and the necessary competencies and who are ready to promote the interests of all the residents of an apartment building, a neighborhood or a district. Therefore, the empirical basis of the article was mainly the materials of interviews with women activists. In the public utilities system full of intricate semi-legal schemes, invisible and incomprehensible to the majority of ordinary citizens, activists are not always able to enter into an equitable dialogue with the controlling bodies and public utilities managers. In order to make insignificant changes, older activists are sometimes required to take tremendous efforts and develop new competencies which help to overcome barriers and to defend the collective interests.
AB - The article probes into the development of local self-organization of retired women, actively involved in resolving housing issues at their place of residence in Saint-Petersburg. The socio-spatial approach to aging, also referred to as «aging in a place / in a community» serves the theoretical framework. This type of aging requires an active approach to the habitual environment of the elderly and their support. It is the groups of older women that generate activists who have free time and the necessary competencies and who are ready to promote the interests of all the residents of an apartment building, a neighborhood or a district. Therefore, the empirical basis of the article was mainly the materials of interviews with women activists. In the public utilities system full of intricate semi-legal schemes, invisible and incomprehensible to the majority of ordinary citizens, activists are not always able to enter into an equitable dialogue with the controlling bodies and public utilities managers. In order to make insignificant changes, older activists are sometimes required to take tremendous efforts and develop new competencies which help to overcome barriers and to defend the collective interests.
KW - aging in place
KW - barriers of interactions
KW - local community
KW - non-government organizations
KW - older woman activists
KW - public utilities sector
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087320126&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - статья
C2 - 32593235
AN - SCOPUS:85087320126
VL - 33
SP - 220
EP - 227
JO - УСПЕХИ ГЕРОНТОЛОГИИ
JF - УСПЕХИ ГЕРОНТОЛОГИИ
SN - 1561-9125
IS - 2
ER -