Ageing and Place

by Andrews; Gavin J.

• ISBN13: 9780415320443
• ISBN10: 0415320445
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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. It provides a valuable information and reference source for those with interests in the spatial dimensions to 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 tradition and international perspectives.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	ix
List of contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(132)
1 Geographical studies in ageing: progress and connections to social gerontology	7	(6)
GAVIN J. ANDREWS AND DAVID R. PHILLIPS
2 Placing ageing: positionings in the study of older people	13	(11)
ROBIN A. KEARNS AND GAVIN J. ANDREWS
3 Multi-disciplinary configurations in gerontology	24	(12)
PIA C. KONTOS
4 International demographic transitions	36	(25)
KEVIN MCCRACKEN AND DAVID R. PHILLIPS
5 Residential homes: from distributions in space to the elements of place	61	(18)
GAVIN J. ANDREWS
6 Home as a new site of care provision and consumption	79	(19)
JANINE WILES
7 Healthy ageing in the community	98	(12)
HELEN BARTLETT AND NANCYE PEEL
8 The physically ageing body and the use of space	110	(8)
KICHU NAIR
9 Environment and psychological responses to ageing	118	(15)
ROBYN FINDLAY AND DEIRDRE McLAUGHLIN
10 Ageing in rural communities: vulnerable people in vulnerable places	133	(14)
ALUN E. JOSEPH AND DENISE CLOUTIER-FISHER
11 Ageing and the urban environment	147	(17)
DAVID R. PHILLIPS, OT-LING SIU, ANTHONY G.-O. YEH AND KEVIN H.C. CHENG
12 Imagined landscapes of age and identity	164	(12)
ANDREW BLATKIE
13 Cataloguing old age	176	(12)
BILL BYTHEWAY AND JULIA JOHNSON
14 Making space for identity	188	(17)
SHEILA M. PEACE, CAROLINE HOLLAND AND LEONIE KELLAHER
References	205	(40)
Index	245