Old People, New Lives: Community Creation in a Retirement Residence

Author/Contributor(s):	Keith, Jennie
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	10/15/1982
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

An American anthropologist, Jennie Keith . . . went to live for twelve months in a French housing scheme for retired people and as a participant observer conducted a study in community creation. This book, in which she describes and analyses her experience, is a delight. It is scholarly and draws on a wide range of studies of similar residences and other collectives; it is also vivid, funny, sad and entertaining.--Marie Borland, British Journal of Social Work