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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Allison E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Alter.
Soziale Situation
Segregation > Soziologie
Stadtbevölkerung
Place attachment.
Marginality, Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Eldercare.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Elder Abuse.
Urban elderly > Government policy.
Urban elderly > Western countries > Social conditions.
Western countries.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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