Reimagining Age-Friendly Communities : Urban Ageing and Spatial Justice / Tine Buffel, Patty Doran, Sophie Yarker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buffel, Tine, author.

Doran, Patty, author.

Yarker, Sophie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban older people.

Older people--Services for.

Older people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2024.

Summary:

How can we design, develop and adapt urban environments to better meet the needs of an increasingly diverse ageing population?.

Contents:

PART I Background to urban ageing and spatia

l justice1. A spatial justice approach to urban ageing research - Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker and Patty Doran

2. Developing age-friendly cities and communities: an international perspective - Samuèle Rémillard-Boilard and Patty Doran

3. Developing age-friendly policies for cities and city-regions during austerity, COVID-19 and beyond: strategies, challenges and reflections - Paul McGarry

4. Paying attention to inequalities in later life: a priority for urban ageing research and policy - James Nazroo

PART II Age-friendly interventions to promote spatial justice

5. Involving marginalised groups of older people in age-friendly programmes: lessons from the Ambition for Ageing programme - Luciana Lang and Sophie Yarker

6. Developing age-friendly communities in areas of urban regeneration - Niamh Kavanagh and Camilla Lewis

7. Co-producing age-friendly community interventions: the Village model - Mhorag Goff and Patty Doran

8. Redesigning the age-friendly city: the role of architecture in addressing spatial ageism - Mark Hammond, Emily Crompton and Stefan White

9. The role of community and voluntary organisations in creating spatially just age-friendly cities - Sophie Yarker, Camilla Lewis and Luciana Lang

PART III Reimagining age-friendly communities

10. Ageing in the margins: exploring experiences of precarity in urban environments - Miriam Tenquist, Tess Hartland and Joana Salles

11. Dismantling and rebuilding praxis for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: towards an emancipatory approach - Jarmin Yeh, Emily A. Greenfield and Melanie Z. Plasencia

12. Conclusion: reimagining age-friendly cities and communities - Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker and Patty Doran

Afterword - Chris Phillipson.

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