Environmental Gerontology : Making Meaningful Places in Old Age /

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"The environments in which people live out their later lives have a strong impact on their identity and provide opportunities for nourishing social interactions. This volume translates the insights derived from contemporary research on residential environments and public spaces that enhance wel...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rowles, Graham D., Bernard, Miriam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©2013.
Temas:
Older people > Housing > Planning.
Public spaces > Social aspects.
Home > Social aspects.
Aging > Social aspects.
Older people.
Social planning.
Housing for the Elderly
Aged
Planning Techniques
Social Planning
Espaces publics > Aspect social.
Foyer > Aspect social.
Vieillissement > Aspect social.
Personnes âgées > Logement.
Personnes âgées.
Planification sociale.
housing for the elderly.
elderly.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Introduction to the meaning of place in residential and public spaces. The meaning and significance of place in old age / Graham D. Rowles and Miriam Bernard
  • Social interactions in public spaces and places : a conceptual overview / Sheila Peace
  • Part II: Private residences. Creating and sustaining homelike places in own home environments / Frank Oswald and Hans-Werner Wahl
  • A place of one's own : reinterpreting the meaning of home among childless older women / Kate de Medeiros, Robert L. Rubinstein, and Patrick J. Doyle
  • Part III: Long-term care environments. The complex process of becoming at-home in assisted living / Malcolm P. Cutchin
  • Transforming long-stay care in Ireland / Eamon O'Shea and Kieran Walsh
  • Developing a physical environmental evaluation component of the dementia care mapping (DCM) tool / Habib Chaudhury, Heather Cooke, and Krista Frazee
  • Part IV: Public spaces. Mobility in outdoor environments in old age / Susanne Iwarsson, Agneta Ståhl, and Charlotte Löfqvist
  • Older people's use of unfamiliar space / Judith Phillips
  • Intergenerational pathways for building relational spaces and places / Leng Leng Thang and Matthew S. Kaplan
  • Creating homelike places in a purpose-built retirement village in the United Kingdom / Bernadette Bartlam, Miriam Bernard, Jennifer Liddle, Thomas Scharf, and Julius Sim
  • Part V: Challenges of application. Past, present and future in designing private and public environments for creating and sustaining place / Miriam Bernard and Graham D. Rowles.

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