Urban Environments for Healthy Ageing (eBook, ePUB)

A Global Perspective
Redaktion: Lane, Anna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together stakeholders from Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, this book presents new evidence and critical reviews of current knowledge to promote ongoing discussions on the challenges and opportunities of aged and highly urbanised populations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429516245
• Artikelnr.: 56889452

Autorenporträt

Anna P. Lane is a research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design. She is a developmental psychologist and gerontologist with a general research interest that focusses on better understanding the psychological, social, and environmental predictors of healthy ageing.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables, figures, and boxes
List of contributors
Forward (Chan Heng Chee)
Acknowledgements
Introduction (Anna P. Lane)
Part I - Housing
Chapter 1. Housing for older Australians: changing capacities and
constrained choices (Julie E. Byles)
Chapter 2. Adapting public housing to age in place in Singapore (Belinda
Yuen)
Chapter 3. Ageing in place: Japan's struggle towards its realisation
(Satoshi Kose)
Part II - Mobility and Transportation
Chapter 4. Neighbourhood built environment and older adults' physical
activity (Ester Cerin, Andrea Nathan, Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Anthony
Barnett)
Chapter 5. Life-space mobility and active ageing (Erja Portegijs, Taina
Rantanen)
Chapter 6. Ageing and transportation (Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson, Sungyop Kim)
Chapter 7. Spatial analysis of older adults' travel behaviour in Singapore
(Yuting Hou, Adithi Moogoor)
Part III - Urban Planning and Design
Chapter 8. Age-friendly communities: community environments to promote
active ageing in place (Chanam Lee, Sinan Zhong)
Chapter 9. Integrating active ageing into inclusive neighbourhood design in
Singapore (Gillian McFeat Lin)
Chapter 10. Graphic design of the city: urban legibility in Singapore
(Joshua Comaroff)
Chapter 11. Designing digital services to enhance older person's access to
public transport (Yuan Lu, Rens Brankaert, Carlijn Valk, Marjolein den
Haan, Xipei Ren)
Index