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  on Aging at the University of or 95—that’s 35 years. We d0n’t treat restrictions, but space does change the
  Kentucky, translates what is, he says, zero to 35 as if it were all the same, so "surveillance zone," the space around
  the implicit. “It’s inside us and we why treat from 65 onwards the same?" you and what you can see,
  fg  don°t even think about it. Only when Using a one—on-one approach, The surveillance zone for the elderly
  we articulate it does Someone say ‘well, Rowles began a two-year study of five is the space they can see from home,
    that’s obvious. That’s how I elderly people who had lived for many and that space is important to someone
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  experiences getting close to them and The result of that study is a doctoral the child becomes an adult, home space
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  ii;  Rowles, who is British, was working Space? "With a question mark because Then, with old age, home once again
  on his doctoral dissertation when he the image is that as you grow older the becomes the whole world. And "setting
  “came across" to Clark University in world (space) closes in on you." up" to make a comfortable place for
  Massachusetts in the early ’70s. A He found highly individual responses watching the world is desirable. What is
  social geographer, he decided to take a to growing old from the five people he needed, ideally, is a room with a view
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