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THE ROLE OF SENIOR CITIZENS‘ CENTRES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Author(s) -
Boldy D.,
Lester J.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
australian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 0726-4240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-6612.1991.tb00176.x
Subject(s) - recreation , social welfare , welfare , socioeconomic status , function (biology) , geography , sociology , political science , demography , population , law , evolutionary biology , biology
This paper explores the extent to which Senior Citizens' Centres (SCCs) in Australia serve a broad role in terms of providing a range of social, recreational and welfare services for elderly people, as envisaged in the 1969 States Grants (Home Care) Act, which was later subsumed by the Home and Community Care Act (1985). Two separate studies of SCCs were conducted, one in Western Australia in 1985/86 and one in Wollongong, New South Wales in 1988/89. Results presented in this paper are from surveys of SCCs, their users and potential users. Despite the somewhat different geographical and socioeconomic backgrounds of the two study areas, key findings from both are remarkably similar. The main function of SCCs surveyed was the provision of recreational pastimes for the well, predominantly English speaking elderly.