"I don't want to go up the hill": Symbolic Boundary Work Among Residents of an Assisted Living Community
In this study I explore boundary work processes that older adults do which influences friendships among residents of a progressive care retirement community. Accounts of boundary work as mechanisms for including some and excluding other residents as potential friends were collected by using a combi...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28728 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08192009-182654/ |