Driving Retirement | Exploring lived experiences within historical, cultural, and social contexts

Joseph Pellerito

ISBN 10: 3639148045 / ISBN 13: 9783639148046

Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009

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Driving Retirement | Exploring lived experiences within historical, cultural, and social contexts | Joseph Pellerito | Taschenbuch | Englisch | VDM Verlag Dr. Müller | EAN 9783639148046 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Driving Retirement | Exploring lived experiences within historical, cultural, and social contexts
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639148045
• ISBN 13: 9783639148046
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Contemporary research indicates that elderly women and men view driving retirement as a negative experience with numerous disabling consequences resulting in decreased quality of life. Scholarship on successful aging, however, shows that seniors generally define aging neutrally or positively. Researchers have relied upon quantitative research methods that lack the kinds of rich descriptions gleaned from qualitative inquiries. Reducing driving retirement to a finite list of negative consequences does not fully convey meanings and lived experiences. Driving retirement also has not been studied systematically against a sociocultural backdrop that could foster understanding within historical, cultural, and social contexts. Thus, qualitative research methods were employed in this study to explore participants? self-defined meanings of driving and driving retirement. Driving retirement resulted in three categories of subjective phenomena including negative, positive, and mixed consequences. The discoveries of positive and mixed effects provide new perspectives not previously reported in the literature.

About the Author

Dr. Joseph M. Pellerito, Jr. is an Associate Professor and Director of WSU's Driving Simulation Laboratory located in the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit, Michigan. He also holds a Research Associate position at the Institute of Gerontology, also at WSU.