Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison

Political Lessons, Scientific Avenues, and Democratic Issues
Herausgegeben:Moulaert, Thibauld; Garon, Suzanne

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Produktbeschreibung

The supportiverole of urban spaces in active aging is explored on a world scale in thisunique resource, using the WHO's Age-Friendly Cities and Community model. Casestudies from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and elsewhere demonstratehow the model translates to fit diverse social, political, and economic realitiesacross cultures and continents, ways age-friendly programs promote seniorempowerment, and how their value can be effectively assessed. Age-friendlycriteria for communities are defined and critiqued while extensive empiricaldata describe challenges as they affect elders globally and how environmentalsupport can help meet them. These chapters offer age-friendly cities as acorrective to the overemphasis on the medical aspects of elders' lives, and shouldinspire new research, practice, and public policy.

Included in thecoverage:
A critical review of the WHO Age-Friendly Cities Methodology and its implementation. Seniors' perspectives on age-friendly communities. The implementation of age-friendly cities in three districts of Argentina. Age-friendly New York City: a case study. Toward an age-friendly European Union. Age-friendliness, childhood, and dementia: toward generationally intelligent environments.
With its balanceof attention to universal and culture-specific concerns, Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparisonwill be of particular interest to sociologists, gerontologists, and policymakers.

"Given the rapid adoption ofthe age-friendly perspective, following its development by the World HealthOrganization, the critical assessment offered in this volume is especiallywelcome".

Professor ChrisPhillipson, University of Manchester

Produktdetails

• International Perspectives on Aging 14
• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-24029-9
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9783319240299
• ISBN-10: 3319240293
• Artikelnr.: 43439079

Autorenporträt

Thibauld Moulaert, PhD is Associated professor at the Department of Social Work, University of Sherbrooke, Canada and part-time Invited Professor at the Haute École de la Province de Namur (HEPN), Belgium.  After a postdoctoral Fellowship in sociology at the National Fund for Scientific Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, including a Visiting Research at King's College London, UK in 2010, he works as a scientific coordinator of a 3 years international project for REAICTIS (Réseau d'Étude International sur l'Âge, la Citoyenneté et l'Intégration Socio-économique) on older people volunteering and on older people citizenship and environments. His first book Governing the End of the Career at a Distance. Outplacement and Active Ageing in Employment (Peter Lang, 2012) received a prize for publication from the Fondation Universitaire; in 2013, he co-edited,with Jean-Philippe Viriot Durandal , a special issue on New perspectives on ageing through the 'duty of ageing well' for the international review Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques. 14.00 Normal 0 false false false FR-BE X-NONE X-NONE

Inhaltsangabe

The Challenges ofAging. - Population aging from a global and theoretical perspective. - Active Aging and Age-Friendly Cities: OneModel, Many Programs. - From the origins of AFC to the WHO global network. -Quebec: from research to policy from 7 pilot projects to 579 cities. - Sao Paulo:one action, three levels-state, city, and neighborhoods. - Hong Kong: thecentrality of participation. - Australia: proof of the "top-down" mistake. -France: is AFC brand new for French cities? Belgium/Wallonia: the limits of theWHO AFC model. - Waterloo, Ontario: AFC in action. - United States: when AFC isdeveloped further. - Manchester: is an urban perspective a means or an end? Challenges from and for Age-FriendlyCities. - Respecting the older subject: building AFC toward recognition. -The AFC model: between political economy and humanistic gerontology. - When AFCmeets policy. - Good and bad points about AFC . Conclusion

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The Challenges of Aging. – Population aging from a global and theoretical perspective. – Active Aging and Age-Friendly Cities: One Model, Many Programs. – From the origins of AFC to the WHO global network. – Quebec: from research to policy from 7 pilot projects to 579 cities. – Sao Paulo: one action, three levels—state, city, and neighborhoods. – Hong Kong: the centrality of participation. – Australia: proof of the “top-down” mistake. – France: is AFC brand new for French cities? Belgium/Wallonia: the limits of the WHO AFC model. – Waterloo, Ontario: AFC in action. – United States: when AFC is developed further. – Manchester: is an urban perspective a means or an end? Challenges from and for Age-Friendly Cities. – Respecting the older subject: building AFC toward recognition. – The AFC model: between political economy and humanistic gerontology. – When AFC meets policy. – Good and bad points about AFC. Conclusion