Ageing in urban neighbourhoods : place attachment and social exclusion /

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This unique book addresses the shortfall in knowledge regarding older people's attachment to deprived neighbourhoods and offers a re-conceptualisation of environmental gerontology. The author examines new cross-national research and challenges the common view that ageing 'in place' is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Allison E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2009.
Colección:Ageing and the lifecourse.
Temas:
Urban older people > Western countries > Social conditions.
Marginality, Social.
Place attachment.
Urban older people > Government policy.
Personnes âgées en milieu urbain > Occident > Conditions sociales.
Attachement à un lieu.
Personnes âgées en milieu urbain > Politique gouvernementale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
Marginality, Social
Place attachment
Stadtbevölkerung
Segregation > Soziologie
Soziale Situation
Alter
Western countries
Urban elderly > Government policy
Urban elderly > Western countries > Social conditions
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This unique book addresses the shortfall in knowledge regarding older people's attachment to deprived neighbourhoods and offers a re-conceptualisation of environmental gerontology. The author examines new cross-national research and challenges the common view that ageing 'in place' is optimal, particularly within areas that present multiple risks to the individual.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 242 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index.
ISBN:9781847422729
1847422721
9781447301448
1447301447
1282562061
9781282562066
9786612562068
6612562064

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