Gavin J. Andrews / David R. Phillips (eds.)

Ageing and Place

Herausgeber: Andrews, Gavin J; Phillips, David R

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During recent years, 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'. An insightful book on an important topic, Andrews and Phillips have together edited a valuable information and reference source for those with interests in the spatial dimensions of ageing in the twenty-first century. Ranging from macro-scale perspectives on the distribution of older populations on national scales, to the meaning of specific local places and settings to older individuals, on the micro-scale, the book spans an entire range of research traditions and international perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780415320443
• ISBN-10: 0415320445
• Artikelnr.: 21096824

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