Aging In Rural Settings

Author : Keating, Norah C
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Raymond T. Coward,John A. Krout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023052108

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Aging in Rural Settings by Raymond T. Coward,John A. Krout Pdf

This text provides the critical dimensions of growing old in rural environments. Prominent researchers explore issues related to life conditions, diversity, services, and public policies for rural elders. A comprehensive overview of the field, this volume addresses the major contemporary themes that dominate rural living today. Special attention is given to populations such as women, African Americans, the oldest old, and the poor, generally considered at greater risk of poor health, social isolation, and economic vulnerability.

Author : Kristina Michelle Hash,Elaine Theresa Jurkowski,John A. Krout
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780826198099

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Aging in Rural Places by Kristina Michelle Hash,Elaine Theresa Jurkowski,John A. Krout Pdf

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Author : Keating, Norah C
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781861349019

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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 : Nina Glasgow,E. Helen Berry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789400755673

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Rural Aging in 21st Century America by Nina Glasgow,E. Helen Berry Pdf

This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Population aging is one of the most important trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is occurring worldwide, especially in more developed countries such as the United States. Population aging is more rapid in rural than urban areas of the U.S. In 2010, 15 percent of the nonmetropolitan compared to 12 percent of the metropolitan population were 65 years of age and older. By definition rural communities have smaller sized populations, and more limited healthcare, transportation and other aging-relevant services than do urban areas. It is thus especially important to study and understand aging in rural environments. Rural Aging in 21st Century America contributes evidence-based, policy-relevant information on rural aging in the U.S. A primary objective of the book is to improve understanding of what makes the experience of rural aging different from aging in urban areas and to increase understanding of the aged change the nature of rural places. The book addresses unique features of rural aging across economic, racial/ethnic, migration and other structures and patterns, all with a focus on debunking myths about rural aging and to emphasize opportunities and challenges that rural places and older people experience.

Author : Lenard W. Kaye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000334364

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Handbook of Rural Aging by Lenard W. Kaye Pdf

The Handbook of Rural Aging goes beyond the perspective of a narrow range of health professions, disciplines, and community services that serve older adults in rural America to encompass the full range of perspectives and issues impacting the communities in which rural older adults live. Touching on such topics as work and voluntarism, technology, transportation, housing, the environment, social participation, and the delivery of health and community services, this reference work addresses the full breadth and scope of factors impacting the lives of rural elders with contributions from recognized scholars, administrators, and researchers. This Handbook buttresses a widespread movement to garner more attention for rural America in policy matters and decisions, while also elevating awareness of the critical circumstances facing rural elders and those who serve them. Merging demographic, economic, social, cultural, health, environmental, and political perspectives, it will be an essential reference source for library professionals, researchers, educators, students, program and community administrators, and practitioners with a combined interest in rural issues and aging.

Author : Mark Skinner,Neil Hanlon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Mark Skinner,Rachel Winterton,Kieran Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000338362

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Rural Gerontology by Mark Skinner,Rachel Winterton,Kieran Walsh Pdf

This book provides the first foundation of knowledge about the intellectual traditions, contemporary scope and future prospects for the interdisciplinary field of rural gerontology. With a focus on rural regions, small towns and villages, which have the highest rates of population ageing worldwide, Rural Gerontology is aimed at understanding what it means for rural people, communities and institutions to be at the forefront of twenty-first-century demographic change. The book offers important insights from rural ageing studies into today’s most pressing gerontological problems. With chapters from more than 65 established and emerging rural ageing researchers, it is the first synthesis of knowledge about rural gerontology, harnessing a burgeoning interdisciplinary scholarship on the rural dimensions of ageing, old age and older populations. With a view to advancing a critical understanding of rural ageing populations, this book will have an overreaching impact across the social sciences by drawing on advancements in understandings of rural ageing from social, environmental, geographical and critical gerontology to facilitate a comprehensive exploration of the diversity, complexity and implications of the ageing process in rural settings. Bringing together valuable international perspectives, this book makes a timely contribution to gerontology, rural studies and the social sciences, and will appeal to scholars and researchers across USA and Canada, UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, China and countries in Africa, South America and South-East Asia.

Author : Norah Christine Keating
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Canada
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063111045

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Aging in Rural Canada by Norah Christine Keating Pdf

Author : Wilbert M Gesler,Donna G Rabiner,Gordon H Defriese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351841900

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Rural Health and Aging Research by Wilbert M Gesler,Donna G Rabiner,Gordon H Defriese Pdf

This book describes a wide-ranging set of research approaches which have been used to study the health care problems of adults living in rural areas. It shows how these approaches can be used to define health care problems, measure levels of illness and health, and evaluate health care practices. For each approach, contributors provide a theoretical background from the health care delivery literature, details of how it can be carried out in the field, its strengths and weaknesses, and illustrative examples from both the literature and their own work.

Author : Mark Skinner,Neil Hanlon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Päivi Naskali,Joan R. Harbison,Shahnaj Begum
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9783030206031

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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 : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Task Force on the Rural Elderly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Older people
ISBN : UCAL:B5012844

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Status of the Rural Elderly: Review of reported differences between the rural and urban elderly, status, needs, services, and service costs by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Task Force on the Rural Elderly Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Task Force on the Rural Elderly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Aged
ISBN : MINN:31951D00275936P

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Status of the Rural Elderly by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Task Force on the Rural Elderly Pdf

Author : Kimiko Tanaka,Nan E. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Aging
ISBN : 1531018610

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Successful Aging in a Rural Community in Japan by Kimiko Tanaka,Nan E. Johnson Pdf

"This book discusses the aging populations in rural Japan. The plan of the book is as follows: In Chapter 1, we describe how rural Japan has changed socially and demographically. We explain how rural depopulation has led to political consolidation, and how the welfare system in Japan is placing more responsibility and autonomy on the municipalities. Some rural towns in Japan, such as Kawanehonchō, are actively responding to the demographic challenges initiated by municipal governments that have the advantage of developing unique programs reflecting the voices of local residents. Chapter 2 describes Kawanehonchō, explains how it became a rural depopulated town, and discusses why the town provides an important example to understand and discuss rural aging comparatively. In Chapter 3, we review theoretical frameworks (collective efficacy theory and social capital) to understand the inseparability of successful aging from the quality of neighborhoods and communities. We explain our research methods in Chapter 4. In Chapter 5, we examine Kawanehonchō with secondary data. Chapter 6 summarizes the findings based on observations of activities provided for the elderly in this town, and Chapter 7 sheds light on rural aging through the eyes and words of its leaders. Chapter 8 presents our findings from our survey of elders participating in two community programs developed locally and specifically for them. Finally, in Chapter 9, we discuss the possibility of net inmigration of older adults to Kawanehonchō, and Chapter 10 includes discussions on challenges in rural depopulation and healthy aging"--