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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793123803321

Titolo

The global age-friendly community movement : a critical appraisal / / edited by Philip B. Stafford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2019

ISBN

1-78533-668-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 pages)

Collana

Life course, culture and aging: global transformations ; ; Volume 5

Disciplina

362.6/30973

Soggetti

Older people - Services for - United States

Older people - Housing - United States

Community development - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : theorizing and practicing age-friendly development / Philip B. Stafford -- Creating age-friendly communities in urban environments : research issues and policy recommendations / Tine Buffel and Chris Phillipson -- Training advocates to undertake livable community initiatives : a pilot program / Sharon A. Baggett -- Public places, community, and the physical and mental health of children and elders / Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard -- The intersection between sustainable and age-friendly development / Alan DeLaTorre -- Accessibility, participation, networking : the impact of a local network on the environment and the life relationship of older people / Birgit Wolter -- Assessing the aging-friendliness of two New York City neighborhoods : a case study / Mia R. Oberlink and Barbara S. Davis -- Communities for all ages : reinforcing and re-imagining the social compact / Corita Brown and Nancy Henkin -- Ibasho Cafe : giving elders a role to play in making communities more resilient / Emi Kiyota -- Youth and older persons as agents for change : creating an inclusive and age-friendly society for all / Kristin Bodiford, Arthur Namara, and Luke Nchichupa -- Retrofitting small towns : how aging-in-place could transform rural America / Zachary Benedict -- Creating an age-friendly community in a depopulated town in Japan : a search for resilient ways to cherish new commons as local cultural resources -- Nanami suzuki -- Relational well-being and age-friendly cities / Marian Barnes.



Sommario/riassunto

The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple international and national organizations in the field of aging. Drawing on an extensive collection of international case studies, this volume provides an introduction to the movement. The contributors – both researchers and practitioners – touch on a number of current tensions and issues in the movement and offer a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community development. The book concludes with a call for a radical transformation of a medical and lifestyle model of aging into a relational model of health and social/individual wellbeing.