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

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

Jennie Keith is professor of anthropology at Swarthmore College. She has done extensive field research in France, is the author of Old People as People, numerous articles, and a chapter in the second edition of the Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences.