Over the Next Hill - An Ethnography of RVing Seniors in North America, Second Edition

Over the Next Hill addresses an understudied but fast growing group in our society—the elderly.

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Lurking in the Laundromat: Doing Research With RVers
2. Aging, Retirement, and RVing
3. From Auto Campers to Escapees
4. Gypsies and Pioneers: Images of RVers
5. If They Aren't Us, Who Are They?
6. On the Road Again
7. "Home is Where I Park It"
8. "They're My Family Now"
9. "Hanging Up the Keys"

Appendices:

1. RV Living Survey
2. Research Method
3. Canadian Federal and Provincial Eligibility for Provincial Health Care
4. Glossary
5. What Now?

References and Internet Resources

Index

About the author

By David R. Counts and Dorothy Ayers Counts

Summary

Over the Next Hill addresses an understudied but fast growing group in our society-the elderly.

Product details

• Authors: David Reese Counts, Dorothy Ayers Counts
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2001
• EAN: 9781551114231
• ISBN: 978-1-55111-423-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnogra; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnogra
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