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The Environments of Ageing

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Providing the first UK assessment of environmental gerontology, this book enriches current understanding of the spatiality of ageing. Sheila Peace considers how places and spaces contextualise pers...
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  • 11 July 2023
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Providing the first UK assessment of environmental gerontology, this book enriches current understanding of the spatiality of ageing.

Sheila Peace considers how places and spaces contextualise personal experience in varied environments, from urban and rural to general and specialised housing. Situating extensive research within multidisciplinary thinking, and incorporating policy and practice, this book assesses how personal health and wellbeing affect different experiences of environment. It also considers the value of intergenerational and age-related living, the meaning of home and global to local concerns for population ageing.

Drawing on international comparisons, this book offers a valuable resource for new research and important lessons for the future.

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Price: $40.95
Pages: 410
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Series: Ageing in a Global Context
Publication Date: 11 July 2023
ISBN: 9781447310563
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, Human geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Age groups and generations
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"This book represents a large part of the author’s career in gerontology, and provides a unique perspective on environmental and geographical gerontology. Apart from reviewing a substantial body of research and theory, it provides researchers and policymakers with many suggestions for further work." International Journal of Housing Policy
Sheila Peace is Emeritus Professor of Social Gerontology in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University. A social geographer by first discipline Sheila is known internationally as a social and environmental gerontologist.

Preface: Understanding the Structure 1. Person and Environment

2. Theoretical Development

3. The Global Context

4. Environmental Living

5. Housing in Later Life

6. Housing Histories, Housing Options

7. Alternative Environments: Specialised Housing (with care)

8. Care Home Living: A Form of Long-term Care

9. Methodological Development

10. Re-thinking the Spatiality of Ageing