Format Hardcover Subject Aging Public Policy Geriatrics International Cooperation Publisher Westport Conn Greenwood Press 1984

Innovative Aging Programs Abroad: Implications for the United States (Contributions to the Study of Aging)

Politics & Social Sciences

Nusberg, Charlotte

Peace, Sheila

Gilbert, Dennis A.

Social Sciences

Praeger

If most older people want to live in their own homes, then why does residential care persist? The authors of this work set out to answer this question, and offer an explanation as to what makes older people give up their homes.

Re-Evaluating Residential Care

Peace

Open University

Environment and Identity in Later Life (Growing Older)

Throughout life, our everyday interactions with material, social, and psychological environments influence our self identity: and ‘who we think we are’ influences how we behave in particular places. In later life, people bring to this relationship a lifetime’s experience that makes certain associations more or less important. This book explores the relationship between environment and identity for older people.  In this detailed ethnographic study, older people talk in depth about their situations and experiences of space and place. The book examines the experience of men and women of different ages and cultures living in a range of different kinds of places, including ‘ordinary’ and ‘special’ housing - from a high-rise flat to a residential care home - in semi-rural, urban and metropolitan locations within the Midlands and south-east England. This research enables us to appreciate how older people manage their needs within the context of their whole lives. Many are able to achieve a ‘life of quality’ as they constantly engage and re-engage with their environment. The discussion of how environmental complexity influences people in developing and maintaining their own identity is essential for those involved in planning, designing, caring and supporting people as they age. Environment and Identity in Later Life is key reading for students, practitioners and policy makers interested in quality of life for older people.

Kellaher, Leonie

Holland, Caroline

Open University Press

Throughout life, our everyday interactions with material, social, and psychological environments influence our self identity: and ‘who we think we are’ influences how we behave in particular places. In later life, people bring to this relationship a lifetime’s experience that makes certain associations more or less important. This book explores the relationship between environment and identity for older people. 
 In this detailed ethnographic study, older people talk in depth about their situations and experiences of space and place. The book examines the experience of men and women of different ages and cultures living in a range of different kinds of places, including ‘ordinary’ and ‘special’ housing - from a high-rise flat to a residential care home - in semi-rural, urban and metropolitan locations within the Midlands and south-east England.
 This research enables us to appreciate how older people manage their needs within the context of their whole lives. Many are able to achieve a ‘life of quality’ as they constantly engage and re-engage with their environment. The discussion of how environmental complexity influences people in developing and maintaining their own identity is essential for those involved in planning, designing, caring and supporting people as they age.
 Environment and Identity in Later Life is key reading for students, practitioners and policy makers interested in quality of life for older people.

Private Lives in Public Places

A hard-hitting analysis of Conservative policies on crime which highlights the way in which legislation has seriously impinged upon civil liberties, whilst at the same time creating the social conditions in which crime has flourished.

Private Lives in Public Places: Research-based Critique of Residential Life in Local Authority Old People's Homes

Willcocks, Dianne

Routledge

The Environments of Ageing: Space, Place and Materiality (Ageing in a Global Context)

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.

Policy Press

Public spaces allow people to meet on ostensibly neutral ground, within the context of the whole community. Social interactions in urban public places draws on a unique study of nine public spaces within one English town viewed across a whole year, carried out by a large team of local observers working alongside academics. The report describes the use of green spaces, commercial and civic spaces, and local neighbourhoods; investigates interactivity within and between people of different age groups; highlights self-regulation as an essential element of the management of public spaces; considers the role of reputation in perceptions of particular places and [vbTab]discusses public involvement in regeneration and the democratising role of public places.Good quality public spaces are integral to 'Cleaner, Safer, Greener', 'Sustainable Communities' and 'Community Cohesion' policies. Yet many public spaces are subject to competition between different users, of different ages, with conflicting ideas about their appropriate use. The study will be of interest to policy makers, practitioners and academics concerned with public space, community cohesion, community involvement, and intergenerational relationships, and anyone interested in the social life of towns.

Social interactions in urban public places (Public Spaces series)

Clark, Andrew

Katz, Jeanne

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Innovative Aging Programs Abroad: Implications for the United States (Contributions to the Study of Aging)

Re-Evaluating Residential Care

Environment and Identity in Later Life (Growing Older)

Environment and Identity in Later Life (Growing Older)

Private Lives in Public Places: Research-based Critique of Residential Life in Local Authority Old People's Homes

The Environments of Ageing: Space, Place and Materiality (Ageing in a Global Context)

The Environments of Ageing: Space, Place and Materiality (Ageing in a Global Context)

Social interactions in urban public places (Public Spaces series)