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Aging People, Aging Places: Experiences, Opportunities, and Challenges of Growing Older in Canada.
Bringing together academic research, practitioner reflections and personal narratives from older adults across Canada, this text provides a rare spotlight on the local implications of aging in Canadian cities and communities. They provide a wide-ranging and comprehensive discussion of how to build s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: Urban
- 1. Aging in urban Canada
- 2. 'An accessible route is always the longest': older adults' experience of their urban environment captured by user led audits and photovoice
- 3. Urban community vignette
- 4. Walking in the city: seniors' experience in Canada and France
- 5. Urban practitioner vignette
- Part II: Suburban
- 6. Aging in suburban Canada
- 7. An age-friendly city? LGBTQ and frail older adults
- 8. Suburban community vignette
- 9. New micro-mobilities and aging in the suburbs
- 10. Suburban practitioner vignette
- Part III: Rural
- 11. Aging in rural Canada
- 12. A profile of the rural and remote older population
- 13. Rural community vignette
- 14. Supports and limitations of aging in a rural place for women aged 85 and older
- 15. Rural practitioner vignette
- Part IV: Indigenous
- 16. Aging in Indigenous Canada
- 17. Pursuing pathways to care: dementia and aging in Indigenous communities
- 18. Indigenous community vignette
- 19. Métis older adults and the negotiation of nativeness
- 20. Indigenous practitioner vignette
- Conclusion
- Index
- Back cover