TY  - JOUR
T1  - An ethnographic study of abandoned and destitute older people living in a specialized centre in city of Gaziantep, Turkey
AU  - Can, Ali Rıza
PY  - 2015
DA  - November
JF  - Eurasian Journal of Anthropology
JO  - Euras J Anthropol
PB  - ÖREN-ADRAMYTTEİON ANTİK KENTİ KÜLTÜR TURİZM VE DOĞA DERNEĞİ
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2166-7411
SP  - 24
EP  - 38
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - The increasing numbers of residential settings for older and retired people in industrialsocieties offer anthropologists a remarkable opportunity to observe the aging in process. Agingis a natural process, and it points to a different meaning in each culture and societies. Thisstudy was able to identify a number of important factors relating to aging including a) howGod is important for elder people, b) how their social relation to each other is, c) what kind offactors affect their social relations, and d) why the effects of social change is a key concern forold people. I found three important key themes. The first key theme supported someresearchers’ opinions that religion plays a more important role in old age. This second theme isalso stated by other researchers, old people think that the social networks and relations weremuch better in the olden days. The last theme is the social relations in old age. Someresearchers said that elder people are friendly and they like to spend time together. However, atGaziantep Destitute Centre, most of the participants reported that they did not like spendingtime together with the other residents.
KW  - Aging
KW  - residential care
KW  - social relations in old age
CR  - Abrams M. (1976) Beyond three score and ten – A first report on a survey of the elderly. London: Age Concern.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/eja/issue//620290
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/808152
ER  -