Abitare e invecchiamento: territorio e casa fra dimensioni istituzionali ed emotive

Journal title SALUTE E SOCIETÀ
Author/s Tommaso Frangioni
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/1
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 66-82 File size 426 KB
DOI 10.3280/SES2025-001005
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This article explores some reflections on the living conditions of the elderly population. It is based on a set of interviews realised in the course of the project “Great Old Biella”. These involved people over-65 and representatives of the main public territorial services and the third sector in Biella. In particular, we focus here on a broad perspective that identifies dwelling as a relationship with the house, but also as a way of relating to the territory, its services and its transformations. How is the transformation of living contexts understood, considering the distinctive needs of the elderly? How are residential pathways narrated and how do they relate to the processes of ageing? Finally, what are the common representations of innovative residential models focused on cohabitation and space sharing? In order to explore these three dimensions, we will use interpretations based on emotional representations and on the way in which residential processes are understood within a network of affects. We will also take into account some background elements that structure the experience of becoming elderly in a specific territory.

Keywords: old age; housing; place; co-living; future horizons; emotions.

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Tommaso Frangioni, Abitare e invecchiamento: territorio e casa fra dimensioni istituzionali ed emotive in "SALUTE E SOCIETÀ" 1/2025, pp 66-82, DOI: 10.3280/SES2025-001005