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Meanings of old age to the elderly in pondok living arrangement in Malaysia

Previous studies have focussed on the meaning of old age as conducted from the quantitative approach. Thus the primary emphasis of this article is the perception of elderly individuals who resided in Pondok Jeram, an alternative congregated living arrangement which was established for the propagatio...

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Main Authors: Areff, Nor Aisah, Lyndon, Novel
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Published: MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome 2015
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spelling my.iium.irep.507842019-10-14T02:02:36Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/50784/ Meanings of old age to the elderly in pondok living arrangement in Malaysia Areff, Nor Aisah Lyndon, Novel HM706 Social structure Previous studies have focussed on the meaning of old age as conducted from the quantitative approach. Thus the primary emphasis of this article is the perception of elderly individuals who resided in Pondok Jeram, an alternative congregated living arrangement which was established for the propagation of Islamic teaching and learning on old age. The employment of abductive research strategy based on idealist ontology and social constructionist epistemology gave the perennial importance to the elderly's point of views. The use of in-depth interviews yielded social actors' meaning and interpretation of old age in their everyday experience. The findings revealed 7 important themes in relation to understanding old age; old age as a natural life cycle, old age is normal, feeling about old age, old age and physical changes, old age and religion, old age and health and old age and pondok. Finally, the interpretations of elderly residents' meaning of old age would give a clearer understanding of their needs from the local socio-cultural environment for future policy planning and implementation concerning them. © 2015, Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research. MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome 2015-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50784/1/50784_Meanings_of_old_age_to_the_elderly_in_pondok_living_arrangement_in_Malaysia.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50784/2/50784_Meanings_of_old_age_to_the_elderly_in_pondok_living_arrangement_in_Malaysia_SCOPUS.pdf Areff, Nor Aisah and Lyndon, Novel (2015) Meanings of old age to the elderly in pondok living arrangement in Malaysia. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 6 (4 S3). pp. 32-38. ISSN 2039-9340 E-ISSN 2039-2117 http://www.mcser.org/journal/index.php/mjss/article/view/7257 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s3p32
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Areff, Nor Aisah
Lyndon, Novel
Meanings of old age to the elderly in pondok living arrangement in Malaysia
description Previous studies have focussed on the meaning of old age as conducted from the quantitative approach. Thus the primary emphasis of this article is the perception of elderly individuals who resided in Pondok Jeram, an alternative congregated living arrangement which was established for the propagation of Islamic teaching and learning on old age. The employment of abductive research strategy based on idealist ontology and social constructionist epistemology gave the perennial importance to the elderly's point of views. The use of in-depth interviews yielded social actors' meaning and interpretation of old age in their everyday experience. The findings revealed 7 important themes in relation to understanding old age; old age as a natural life cycle, old age is normal, feeling about old age, old age and physical changes, old age and religion, old age and health and old age and pondok. Finally, the interpretations of elderly residents' meaning of old age would give a clearer understanding of their needs from the local socio-cultural environment for future policy planning and implementation concerning them. © 2015, Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research.
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author Areff, Nor Aisah
Lyndon, Novel
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Lyndon, Novel
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title Meanings of old age to the elderly in pondok living arrangement in Malaysia
title_short Meanings of old age to the elderly in pondok living arrangement in Malaysia
title_full Meanings of old age to the elderly in pondok living arrangement in Malaysia
title_fullStr Meanings of old age to the elderly in pondok living arrangement in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Meanings of old age to the elderly in pondok living arrangement in Malaysia
title_sort meanings of old age to the elderly in pondok living arrangement in malaysia
publisher MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/50784/1/50784_Meanings_of_old_age_to_the_elderly_in_pondok_living_arrangement_in_Malaysia.pdf
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