scholarly journals “Aging in Displacement: Urban Revitalization and Puerto Rican Elderhood in Chicago”

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mérida M. Rúa
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Senior Housing ◽  
Age In Place ◽  
Housing Security ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
The Individual

Displacement has marked the individual and collective lives of Puerto Ricans in Chicago, especially those who migrated in the 1950s and 1960s. For these older persons, the arrival of the gentry and the yuppies of yesterday, the hipsters of today, and the disappearance of familiar faces in their current neighborhoods are not new phenomena, but rather parts of a profoundly familiar process. They came of age in displacement. Today some Puerto Rican older adults have achieved housing security and are able to age in place because they live in low-income senior housing. Yet a sense of displacement still looms large in their daily lives with the upscaling of and new-build gentrification in their current neighborhood. This work sheds light on the meaning of place for older adult Puerto Ricans who have experienced what psychiatrist and urban studies scholar Mindy T. Fullilove calls a history of “serial displacement.” Through life history narratives and ethnographic snapshots, this paper highlights the neglected reality of “aging in displacement,” or the experience of growing up and growing older in a context of repeated socio-spatial dislocation and how individual and collective life histories of community upheaval texture the spatial and social meanings of place.

Differential Aging in Place and Depressive Symptoms: Interplay Among Time, Income, and Senior Housing

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sojung Park ◽  
BoRin Kim ◽  
Yoonsun Han
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Aging In Place ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Income Group ◽  
Senior Housing ◽  
Housing Environment ◽  
Age In Place ◽  
Retirement Study ◽  
Over Time

Objective: We examined cumulative and differential experiences of aging in place. Method: Data came from the 2002 and 2010 wave of the Health Retirement Study. We modeled the trajectory of later-life depressive symptoms, and how senior-housing environments moderate the negative association between economic disadvantages and depressive symptoms. Results: At baseline, economically disadvantaged older adults were more likely to exhibit depressive symptoms. However, detrimental effects of income group (non-low income vs. moderate income; non-low income vs. low income) on depressive symptoms did not significantly change over time. The age-leveler hypothesis may account for nonsignificant effects of disadvantaged income groups over time. Discussion: Findings suggest that moderate-income seniors may experience positive differentials if they age in place in a supportive senior-housing environment. Moderate-income seniors may have broader opportunities in senior housing compared to private-home peers. Senior housing might partially counter risks such as low mental health, emerging from life-course disadvantage.

Conclusion Current Struggles against U.S. Colonialism and Empire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
JoAnna Poblete
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sugar Plantations

This book offers an alternative perspective to the standard narrative that views the history of labor in Hawaiian sugar plantations as an interesting sidebar to U.S. history, arguing that such a marginalization of the islands ignores the role of colonialism in the overall story of the nation. It also challenges the practice of distinguishing sharply between continental versus overseas U.S. expansionism, and especially the claim that the expansion of a nation to contiguous continental areas was a natural part of the development of a country. As it has demonstrated in this text, U.S imperialism manifested in the daily lives of Puerto Rican and Filipino laborers in Hawaiʻi. The book concludes with a discussion of two significant ways that U.S. colonialism still has an active influence on the daily lives of Puerto Ricans and Filipinos: the push for a change in Puerto Rico's temporary territorial relationship with the United States; and the quest for the return of the bells of Balangiga, taken as war booty in 1901 and currently displayed at a U.S. war memorial in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

scholarly journals Meal composition and meal skipping behaviors differ between low‐income Puerto Ricans and Non‐Puerto Rican pregnant Latinas

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Bermúdez‐Millán ◽  
Amber Hromi‐Fiedler ◽  
Grace Damio ◽  
Sofia Segura‐Pérez ◽  
Rafael Pérez‐Escamilla
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
Meal Skipping ◽  
Meal Composition

“That day no one spoke”: Florida Puerto Ricans’ Reaction to Hurricane María

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristalís Capielo Rosario ◽  
Roberto L. Abreu ◽  
Kirsten A. Gonzalez ◽  
Elizabeth Cardenas Bautista
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
Stress Reactions ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
The Individual

We conducted two focus groups and four individual interviews to examine the experiences of Florida Puerto Rican adults ( N = 26) with secondary exposure to the devastation caused by Hurricane María. Results from our thematic analysis yielded four major themes and eight subthemes depicting responses to Hurricane María. Four major themes emerged across participant responses: 1) Participants’ Experience with Hurricane María, 2) Participants’ Negative Reactions to Hurricane María, 3) Participants Providing Support, and 4) Resilience and Growth. We also found that Florida Puerto Ricans’ secondary stress reactions were influenced by Puerto Rico’s political status and economic crisis. Results also indicated that participants experienced vicarious posttraumatic growth not only at the individual but also at the community level.

scholarly journals Food group intake patterns differ between low‐income Puerto Ricans and Non‐Puerto Rican pregnant Latinas

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Bermúdez‐Millán ◽  
Amber Hromi‐Fiedler ◽  
Grace Damio ◽  
Sofia Segura‐Pérez ◽  
Rafael Pérez‐Escamilla
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
Food Group

Nobody’s Perfect: Making sense of a parenting skills workshop through ethnographic research in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago de Chile

2021 ◽  
pp. 026101832098398
Author(s):  
Marjorie Murray ◽  
Daniela Tapia
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Santiago De Chile ◽  
One Year ◽  
Everyday Problems

Nadie es Perfecto (Nobody’s Perfect, or NEP) is a parenting skills workshop aimed at ‘sharing experiences and receiving guidance on everyday problems to strengthen child development’. This article explores this workshop in terms of its relationship with the daily lives of participants, based on one year of fieldwork focused on families with young children in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago. While caregivers frame their parenting efforts as aiming to ‘hacer lo mejor posible’ (do their best) under difficult circumstances, our study found that facilitators take an anachronistic and homogenizing view of participants. Embracing a universalistic perspective of child development, they discourage participation and debate, focusing instead on providing concrete advice that limits the potential of the workshops. This article argues that by ignoring the different living situations of families in this socioeconomic context, NEP reproduces a prejudiced view of poor subjects that sees them as deficient and incapable of change.

scholarly journals Development of a Remote Assessment and Dynamic Response Intervention for Dementia-Related Care Needs

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 626-626
Author(s):  
Lyndsey Miller ◽  
Christina Reynolds ◽  
Carol Whitlatch ◽  
Joel Steele ◽  
Jeffrey Kaye
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Behavioral Data ◽  
Sleep Habits ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Assessment Protocol ◽  
Age In Place ◽  
Individual Care ◽  
Remote Assessment ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Unmet dementia-related care needs are highly prevalent, and are detrimental to the care dyad’s health and well-being, safety, and ability to age in place. The goal of this study was to develop an ecologically-valid needs assessment and integrate it with aspects of the SHARE intervention to inform values-based care planning. Using digital behavioral data collected via an actigraphy watch and multimodal sensors installed in the homes of 76 older adult couples with and without dementia, we created a prototype of the objective measures informing READyR: time spent together or separate as a dyad, exits from the home, sleep habits, physical activity, daily weight, driving habits, and medication taking behavior. These digital behavioral data were then mapped onto care values (e.g. safety, avoiding burden & autonomy) to create a values-based needs assessment protocol that is tailored to the individual care dyad. Discussion will focus on future testing and applications of READyR.

Socialist Modernisation in Mongolia as Narrated after Socialism

Inner Asia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Konagaya
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
View Point ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
History Narratives

AbstractIn this article I introduce our collection of oral histories composed of life histories recorded between 2001 and 2006. First, I discuss some devices implemented in the process of collecting life histories, which was to make oral histories 'polyphonic'. I then suggest that oral history always has a 'dual' tense, in that people talk about 'the past' from the view point of 'the present'. This is illustrated by six cases of statesmen narrating their views about socialist modernisation. Finally, using one of the cases, I demonstrate the co-existence of non-official or private opinions along with official opinions about the socialist period in life-history narratives in the post-socialist period. I call this 'ex-post value'.

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