title: Moving Beyond 'Aging In Place' to Understand Migration and Aging: Place Making and the Centrality Of Occupation.
abstract: 'Aging in place' has become a key conceptual framework for understanding and addressing place within the aging process. However, aging in place has been critiqued for not sufficiently providing tools to understand relations or transactions between aging and place, and for not matching the diversity of contemporary society in which people are moving between and across nations more than ever before. In this article, the authors draw from concepts of place and migration that are becoming increasingly visible in occupational science. The concept of 'aging in place' is critically examined as an example of an ideal where the understanding of place is insufficiently dynamic in a context of migration. The authors suggest that the concept of place making can instead be a useful tool to understand how occupation can be drawn upon to negotiate relationships that connect people to different places around the world, how the negotiated relations are embedded within the occupations that fill daily lives, and how this process is contextualized and enacted in relation to resources and capabilities.
authors.affiliation: Lecturer, Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
authors.forename: Karin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Johansson
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor & Faculty Scholar, School of Occupational Therapy, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Debbie Laliberte
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Rudman
authors.affiliation: Lecturer, Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
authors.forename: Margarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mondaca
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor, School of Physical & Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada.
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Guest Professor, Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and Director of Aging and Health Disparities Research at the Institute of Gerontology, and Professor of Anthropology and Gerontology, Wayne State University, USA.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Luborsky
authors.affiliation: Professor, Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
authors.forename: Staffan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Josephsson
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, and Stockholms Sjukhem Foundation, Department of Research, Development, and Education, Sweden.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Asaba
keywords: Aging; Culture; Immigration; Migration; Place; Theory