1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456297003321

Autore

Smith Allison E

Titolo

Ageing in urban neighbourhoods : Place attachment and social exclusion / / Allison E. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4473-0144-7

1-282-56206-1

9786612562068

1-84742-272-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 pages)

Collana

Ageing and the lifecourse

Disciplina

362.6091732

Soggetti

Alter

Soziale Situation

Segregation

Stadtbevölkerung

Place attachment

Marginality, Social

SOCIAL SCIENCE - Gerontology

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS - Eldercare

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS - Abuse - Elder Abuse

Urban elderly - Government policy

Urban elderly - Western countries - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Western countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ageing in urban neighbourhoods; Contents; List of boxes, tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Environmental gerontology; 3. Urban ageing; 4. Skid row? Area profiles; 5. Ageing in deprived neighbourhoods; 6. Reconceptualising the person-environment relationship; 7. The way forward -- building



sustainability; 8. Influences, opportunities and challenges; 9. Conclusion; Appendix A: Summary of participant characteristics; Appendix B: Short biographies of participants in Manchester and Vancouver; Appendix C: Mrs MacDougall's short story; References; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This unique book addresses the shortfall in knowledge regarding older people's attachment to deprived neighbourhoods and offers a re-conceptualisation of environmental gerontology. The author examines new cross-national research and challenges the common view that ageing 'in place' is optimal, particularly within areas that present multiple risks to the individual.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787873503321

Titolo

The uses of reminiscence : new ways of working with older adults / / Marc Kaminsky, guest editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-82406-7

1-315-82083-8

1-317-82405-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Collana

Journal of Gerontological Social Work ; ; Volume 7, Numbers 1/2

Altri autori (Persone)

KaminskyMarc <1943->

Disciplina

305.2/6/0922

Soggetti

Gerontology - Biographical methods

Older people's writings, American

Social work with older people - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Has also been published as Journal of gerontological social work, volume 7, numbers 1/2, March 1984"--T.p. verso.

First published in 1984 by Haworth Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Time for Reclaiming the Past; I. MODES OF PRACTICE; Transfiguring Life: Images of Continuity Hidden Among the Fragments; The Passion of Recollection; Snug Harbor:



Workshops at the National Maritime Union; A Stage for Memory: Living History Plays by Older Adults; At the Center of the Story; Tapping the Legacy; Heal, Body, Heal: Invocations to Hope and Health; About Ending; Minerva's Doll; II. CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES; The Uses of Reminiscence: A Discussion of the Formative Literature

Reminiscence and the Recovery of the Public WorldJourney Through the Feminine: The Life Review Poems of William Carlos Williams; Old People, Poetry, and Groups; Realities of Aging: Starting Points for Imaginative Work with the Elderly; A Kind of Odyssey; III. APPENDIX; A Bibliography on Reminiscence and Life Review; IV. NOTES; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

The meaning and value of reminiscence in the lives of elders is beautifully explored.