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.
Stadtbevölkerung
Segregation > Soziologie
Soziale Situation
Alter
Western countries.
Marginality, Social
Place attachment
Urban elderly > Government policy
Urban elderly > Western countries > Social conditions
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ageing in urban neighbourhoods; Contents; List of boxes, tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Environmental gerontology; 3. Urban ageing; 4. Skid row? Area profiles; 5. Ageing in deprived neighbourhoods; 6. Reconceptualising the person-environment relationship; 7. The way forward
  • building sustainability; 8. Influences, opportunities and challenges; 9. Conclusion; Appendix A: Summary of participant characteristics; Appendix B: Short biographies of participants in Manchester and Vancouver; Appendix C: Mrs MacDougall's short story; References; Index.

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