Re-Creating Neighborhoods For Successful Aging

by Abbott, Pauline S., Ph.D.; Carman, Nancy; Carman, Jack; Scarfo, Bob, Ph.D.; Butler, Robert N., M.D.

• ISBN13: 9781932529241
• ISBN10: 1932529241
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-31
• Publisher: Health Professions Pr

Summary

"Re-creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging provides a crucial foundation for confronting the growing aging population's demands for appropriate housing and environments. This current demographic shift is causing a transformation of attitudes and perspectives about growing older, retirement, and senior housing. To ensure that physical environments meet the changing needs of older adults, a reconception of housing, communities, and neighborhoods is required." "Drawing from the fields of gerontology, health sciences, community planning, landscape architecture, and environmental design, this groundbreaking resource provides an in-depth examination of current elder housing practices and strategies, alongside goals for the future. Housing models, such as continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs), shared housing, and co-housing, are evaluated, and best practice recommendations are presented." "The book closes with an inspiring look at opportunities for future collaboration of health sciences and planning and design professionals for the realization of supportive, life-affirming communities thai will result in healthy aging, active living, and continued community participation for older adults."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Foreword
The World of Senior Living	p. 1
A History of Long-Term Care in the United States	p. 7
Public Health and the Built Environment	p. 23
Geographic Information Systems: Health and Aging as a Spatial Construct	p. 33
Nature-Related Contact for Healthy Communities: From Hunter-Gatherer to Horticultural Therapy	p. 53
Supportive Environments in the Community, the Neighborhood, and at Home	p. 85
The Evolution of Continuing Care Retirement Communities: Not Your Grandmother's Retirement Community	p. 91
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities: Thriving through Creative Retrofitting	p. 115
Cohousing and Shared Housing	p. 145
Outdoor Environments Supportive of Independence and Aging Well	p. 163
Technology and Aging: Adapting Homes and Shopping Environments with Assistive Technologies	p. 211
Preparing for the Near and Distant Futures	p. 223
Collaboration as the Key to the Successful Future of Aging	p. 223
Index	p. 253
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.