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Aging people, aging places : experiences, opportunities and challenges of growing older in Canada / edited by Maxwell Hartt [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Policy Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--Canada--Social conditions.
- Older people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, England : Policy Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Bringing together academic research, practitioner reflections and personal narratives from older adults across Canada, this text provides a rare spotlight on the local implications of aging in Canadian cities and communities. They provide a wide-ranging and comprehensive discussion of how to build supportive communities for Canadians of all ages.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Urban
- Aging in urban Canada
- ‘An accessible route is always the longest’: older adults’ experience of their urban environment captured by user-led audits and photovoice
- Urban community vignette
- Walking in the city: seniors’ experience in Canada and France
- Urban practitioner vignette
- Suburban
- Aging in suburban Canada
- An age-friendly city? LGBTQ and frail older adults
- Suburban community vignette
- New micro-mobilities and aging in the suburbs
- Suburban practitioner vignette
- Rural
- Aging in rural Canada
- A profile of the rural and remote older population
- Rural community vignette
- Supports and limitations of aging in a rural place for women aged 85 and older
- Rural practitioner vignette
- Indigenous
- Aging in Indigenous Canada
- Pursuing pathways to care: dementia and aging in Indigenous communities
- Indigenous community vignette
- Métis older adults and the negotiation of nativeness
- Indigenous practitioner vignette
- Conclusion
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Dec 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-5259-9
- 1-4473-5265-3
- 1-4473-5257-2
- OCLC:
- 1239981874
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