Places Where the Elderly Meet Friends at Banyumanik Public Housing, Semarang, Indonesia

摘要

There is a phenomenon of aging in place at Banyumanik Public Housing in Semarang-Indonesia. The aim of this study is to find places where the elderly can meet friends from other generations in their neighborhood when they do their activities. By using qualitative approach, the results of this study explain that the elderly do their activities in two character places that is a real place and abstract place. Those places have various meanings, such as share and entertain and those make the elderly feel happy and satisfied.