Ageing Resource Communities

Author : Mark Skinner,Neil Hanlon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317542223

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Ageing Resource Communities by Mark Skinner,Neil Hanlon Pdf

Throughout the world’s hinterland regions, people are growing old in resource-dependent communities that were neither originally designed nor presently equipped to support an ageing population. This book provides cutting edge theoretical and empirical insights into the new phenomenon resource frontier ageing, to understand the diverse experiences of and responses to rural population ageing in the early 21st century. The book explores the resource hinterland as a new frontier of rural ageing and examines three central themes of rural population change, community development and voluntarism that characterize ageing resource communities. By investigating the links among these three themes, the book provides the conceptual and empirical foundations for the future agenda of rural ageing research. This timely contribution contains 15 original chapters by leading international experts from Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, UK, Ireland and Norway.

Author : Keating, Norah C
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847424037

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Rural ageing by Keating, Norah C Pdf

This important book addresses a growing international interest in 'age-friendly' communities. It examines the conflicting stereotypes of rural communities as either idyllic and supportive or isolated and bereft of services. Providing detailed information on the characteristics of rural communities, contributors ask the question, 'good places for whom'? The book extends our understanding of the intersections of rural people and places across the adult lifecourse. Taking a critical human ecology perspective, authors trace lifecourse changes in community and voluntary engagement and in the availability of social support. They illustrate diversity among older adults in social inclusion and in the types of services that are essential to their well being. For the first time, detailed information is provided on characteristics of rural communities that make them supportive to different groups of older adults. Comparisons between the UK and North America highlight similarities in how landscapes create rural identities, and fundamental differences in how climate, distance and rural culture shape the everyday lives of older adults. Rural ageing is a valuable resource for students, academics and practitioners interested in communities, rural settings and ageing and the lifecourse. Rich in national profiles and grounded in the narratives of older adults, it provides theoretical, empirical and practical examples of growing old in rural communities never before presented.

Author : Mark Skinner,Neil Hanlon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317542216

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Ageing Resource Communities by Mark Skinner,Neil Hanlon Pdf

Throughout the world’s hinterland regions, people are growing old in resource-dependent communities that were neither originally designed nor presently equipped to support an ageing population. This book provides cutting edge theoretical and empirical insights into the new phenomenon resource frontier ageing, to understand the diverse experiences of and responses to rural population ageing in the early 21st century. The book explores the resource hinterland as a new frontier of rural ageing and examines three central themes of rural population change, community development and voluntarism that characterize ageing resource communities. By investigating the links among these three themes, the book provides the conceptual and empirical foundations for the future agenda of rural ageing research. This timely contribution contains 15 original chapters by leading international experts from Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, UK, Ireland and Norway.

Author : Thibauld Moulaert,Suzanne Garon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9783319240312

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Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison by Thibauld Moulaert,Suzanne Garon Pdf

The supportive role of urban spaces in active aging is explored on a world scale in this unique resource, using the WHO’s Age-Friendly Cities and Community model. Case studies from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and elsewhere demonstrate how the model translates to fit diverse social, political, and economic realities across cultures and continents, ways age-friendly programs promote senior empowerment, and how their value can be effectively assessed. Age-friendly criteria for communities are defined and critiqued while extensive empirical data describe challenges as they affect elders globally and how environmental support can help meet them. These chapters offer age-friendly cities as a corrective to the overemphasis on the medical aspects of elders’ lives, and should inspire new research, practice, and public policy. Included in the coverage: 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 balance of attention to universal and culture-specific concerns, Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison will be of particular interest to sociologists, gerontologists, and policymakers. “Given the rapid adoption of the age-friendly perspective, following its development by the World Health Organization, the critical assessment offered in this volume is especially welcome”. Professor Chris Phillipson, University of Manchester

Author : Gerald Hodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1282864653

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The Geography of Aging by Gerald Hodge Pdf

Gerald Hodge uses the latest statistics to map the current and future spatial distribution of Canada's seniors and their diversity. Drawing on tested aging-environmental research and years of planning experience, he delineates the everyday geography of seniors and proposes a comprehensive framework for all communities - large and small, urban, suburban, and rural - that will allow them to respond to the needs of a rapidly aging population while recognizing the importance of maintaining the independence of their seniors.

Author : Keating, Norah C
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1861349017

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Rural Ageing by Keating, Norah C Pdf

In western countries, our knowledge of ageing has been developed primarily through an urban lens with rural issues typically considered in relation to urban research, policy and programme outcomes. This title provides a much-needed corrective by focusing on diversity among rural communities.

Author : Laura Ryser,Devon Roy,Erin MacQuarrie,Mark Skinner,Greg Halseth,Neil Thomas Hanlon,Alun E. Joseph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Community development
ISBN : OCLC:1330556912

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The Transformative Role of Voluntarism in Aging Resource Communities by Laura Ryser,Devon Roy,Erin MacQuarrie,Mark Skinner,Greg Halseth,Neil Thomas Hanlon,Alun E. Joseph Pdf

Author : Tine Buffel,Sophie Handler,Chris Phillipson
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447331346

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Age-Friendly Cities and Communities by Tine Buffel,Sophie Handler,Chris Phillipson Pdf

As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in urban areas. In this book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, leading international researchers critically assess the problems and the potential of designing age-friendly environments. The book considers the different ways in which cities are responding to population ageing, the different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and the extent to which older people themselves can be involved in the co-production of age-friendly policies and practices. The book includes a manifesto for the age-friendly movement, focused around tackling social inequality and promoting community empowerment.

Author : Laura Ryser,Devon Roy,Erin MacQuarrie,Mark Skinner,Greg Halseth,Neil Thomas Hanlon,Alun E. Joseph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Community development
ISBN : OCLC:1330589983

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The Transformative Role of Voluntarism in Aging Resource Communities by Laura Ryser,Devon Roy,Erin MacQuarrie,Mark Skinner,Greg Halseth,Neil Thomas Hanlon,Alun E. Joseph Pdf

Author : Bernard, Miriam,Scharf, Thomas
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847422392

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Critical perspectives on ageing societies by Bernard, Miriam,Scharf, Thomas Pdf

This important book brings together some of the best known international scholars working within a critical gerontology perspective. Together, they review and update our understanding of how the field has developed over the last twenty-five years and, through the lens of 'passionate scholarship', provide a challenging assessment of the complex practical and ethical issues facing older people, and those who conduct research on ageing, in the 21st century. The contributions extend the critical gerontological approach conceptually, methodologically and practically. They offer close and scholarly analysis of policies affecting the lives of older people and provide insights into why research is done in particular ways. Special attention is paid to feminist contributions and new approaches to working in partnership with older people; age discrimination and ageism; the impact of neo-liberal policies and the passage of various human rights instruments; the re-medicalisation of later life; the participation of older people in research; and justice between generations. The editors and contributors offer suggestions for promoting change, and an exciting set of visions and perspectives for the renewal and development of critical gerontology in the years ahead. Critical Perspectives on Ageing Societies will be a valuable resource for all students, academics and practitioners interested in ageing and the life course.

Author : Robbyn R. Wacker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Community health services for older people
ISBN : 1483329720

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Community Resources for Older Adults by Robbyn R. Wacker Pdf

This text provides realistic case studies of individuals and communities, and describes model programmes and services for working with the elderly in a time of change.

Author : Päivi Naskali,Joan R. Harbison,Shahnaj Begum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 303020605X

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New Challenges to Ageing in the Rural North by Päivi Naskali,Joan R. Harbison,Shahnaj Begum Pdf

This book provides an underexplored view of ageing, one that conceives older people as valuable resources in their communities, as active citizens with both voice, and an agency that includes the capacity for resistance. It acknowledges that becoming old with dignity means also paying attention to caring, good health services and the possibility of good death. The book defines age and ageing as multiple, culturally and historically constructed phenomena that are only loosely connected to the years of one’s life. In focusing on the peripheral North located in the Nordic, Canadian and Russian north, it highlights important questions and viewpoints that can be found and adapted to other rural areas. The book answers the following questions: What is the relevance of legislation and international legal agreements in ensuring the rights of elderly people under political and economic changes? What challenges do geographic isolation, changing age structure, and cultural and ecological transformations pose to possibilities for meeting older people’s needs for engagement in society as well as for their care? As such this book will be of interest to all those working in population aging.

Author : Biglieri, Samantha,Hartt, Maxwell,Mark Rosenberg,Sarah Nelson
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447352563

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Aging People, Aging Places by Biglieri, Samantha,Hartt, Maxwell,Mark Rosenberg,Sarah Nelson Pdf

Bringing together academic research, practitioner reflections and personal narratives from older adults across Canada, this text provides a rare spotlight on the local implications of aging in Canadian cities and communities. They provide a wide-ranging and comprehensive discussion of how to build supportive communities for Canadians of all ages.

Author : Robbyn R. Wacker,Karen A. Roberto
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506383958

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Community Resources for Older Adults by Robbyn R. Wacker,Karen A. Roberto Pdf

Community Resources for Older Adults provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on programs, services, and policies pertaining to older adults. Authors Robbyn R. Wacker and Karen A. Roberto build reader awareness of programs and discuss how to better understand help-seeking behavior, as well as explain ways to take advantage of the resources available to older adults. The substantially revised Fifth Edition includes new topics and updated research, tables, and figures to help answer key questions about the evolution and utilization of programs for older adults and the challenges that service providers face.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789241547307

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Global Age-friendly Cities by World Health Organization Pdf

The guide is aimed primarily at urban planners, but older citizens can use it to monitor progress towards more age-friendly cities. At its heart is a checklist of age-friendly features. For example, an age-friendly city has sufficient public benches that are well-situated, well-maintained and safe, as well as sufficient public toilets that are clean, secure, accessible by people with disabilities and well-indicated. Other key features of an age-friendly city include: well-maintained and well-lit sidewalks; public buildings that are fully accessible to people with disabilities; city bus drivers who wait until older people are seated before starting off and priority seating on buses; enough reserved parking spots for people with disabilities; housing integrated in the community that accommodates changing needs and abilities as people grow older; friendly, personalized service and information instead of automated answering services; easy-to-read written information in plain language; public and commercial services and stores in neighbourhoods close to where people live, rather than concentrated outside the city; and a civic culture that respects and includes older persons.