Participating at the Mall: Possibilities and Tensions that Shape Older Adults' Occupations

摘要: This article presents an instrumental case study of Carolina Mall, a shopping center in North that served as popular destination for older adults. Multiple methods, including naturalistic observation, interviews, and document study, were used to examine the processes patterns engagement adults' preferred out-and-about occupations. Two key tensions emerged. First, features space adults found most appealing often not desirable management (for example, lack foot traffic). Second, mall's overt retail purpose was reflected actual use by These tensions, both complicated redevelopment rebranding efforts, reveal complex socio-political dimensions engaging mall environment. We theorize these help articulate common experience non-consumer occupations despite consumeristic landscape public spaces. st...