"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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Main Author: Harrison-Rexrode, Jill
Other Authors: Sociology
Format: Others
Published: 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/