Ageing and Place (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Andrews, Gavin J.; Phillips, David R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An increasing amount of academic research has focused on older people with a particular emphasis on settings, places and spaces. This book provides a comprehensive review of research and the policy area of 'ageing and place'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134361373
• Artikelnr.: 47885087

Autorenporträt

Gavin J. Andrews, David R. Phillips

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Geographical Studies in Ageing: Progress and Connections to
Social Gerontology 2. Placing Ageing: Positionings in the Study of Older
People 3. Multi-Disciplinary Configurations in Gerontology 4. International
Demographic Transitions 5. Residential Homes: From Distributions in Space
to the Elements of Place 6. Home as a New Site of Care Provision and
Consumption 7. Healthy Ageing in the Community 8. The Physically Ageing
Body and the Use of Space Environment and Psychological Responses to Ageing
10. Ageing in Rural Communities: Vulnerable People in Vulnerable Places 11.
Ageing and the Urban Environment 12. Imagined Landscapes of Age and
Identity 13. Cataloguing Old Age 14. Making Space for Identity