Cite this article：
Breen, K., Ru, S., Vandeweghe, L. et al. “If Somebody Needed Help, I Went Over”: Social Capital and Therapeutic Communities of Older Adult Farmers in British Columbia Floods. Int J Disaster Risk Sci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-024-00558-6
“如果有人需要帮助，我就过去”：不列颠哥伦比亚省洪灾中老年农民的社会资本和治疗型社区
Kyle Breen, Siyu Ru, Luna Vandeweghe, Jenna Chiu, Lindsay Heyland & Haorui Wu
摘要：
在灾害情景下，老年人通常被认为是被动的、脆弱的群体，他们缺乏主动性和应对灾后问题的能力。然而可以说，老年人可能有一些未被充分认识到的优势，可以在灾前、灾中和灾后加以利用。这些优势之一就是老年人独特的社会资本，这种资本来自于他们与各自社区其他成员的长期联系。本研究利用2021年洪灾后3-11个月对不列颠哥伦比亚省农民进行的深入半结构式访谈数据，探讨了老年农民的灾后恢复经验。农民们讨论了他们如何利用自己的社会资本来帮助洪灾后的恢复工作。通过利用他们的社会资本纽带，老年农民将他们现有的、根深蒂固的联系转化为灾后援助。这反过来又产生了 “治疗型社区”的概念，即帮助社区成员应对灾后问题。这项研究表明，有必要进一步研究如何将灾害环境中的老年人视为具有社区知识和技能的资产，而不仅仅是弱势群体。
关键词：
不列颠哥伦比亚省；洪水灾害；老年人；定性研究；社会资本；治疗型社区
“If Somebody Needed Help, I Went Over”: Social Capital and Therapeutic Communities of Older Adult Farmers in British Columbia Floods
Kyle Breen, Siyu Ru, Luna Vandeweghe, Jenna Chiu, Lindsay Heyland & Haorui Wu
Abstract：
Older adults in disaster contexts are often thought of as a passive, vulnerable population that lacks agency and capacities to cope in the aftermath. However, it can be argued that older adults may have underrecognized strengths that can be utilized pre-, peri-, and post-disaster. One of these strengths is older adults’ unique social capital that stems from long-standing connections with other members of their respective communities. Using data from in-depth, semistructured interviews with farmers in British Columbia 3–11 months after the 2021 floods, this research explored the experiences of older adult farmers’ recovery. The farmers discussed how they leveraged their social capital to aid in their recovery efforts from the flood event. By using their bonding social capital, older adult farmers transformed their existing, deep-rooted connections into post-disaster assistance. This, in turn, generated the idea of the therapeutic community, helping community members cope in the aftermath. This research indicated the need to further examine how older adults in disaster settings can be viewed as assets with community knowledge and skills as opposed to solely as a vulnerable population.
Keywords：
British Columbia, Flood disaster, Older adults, Qualitative research , Social capital, Therapeutic community
文章链接：
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13753-024-00558-6
