Age-friendly cities and communities in international comparison : political lessons, scientific avenues, and democratic issues
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Age-friendly cities and communities in international comparison : political lessons, scientific avenues, and democratic issues
（International perspectives on aging, v. 14）
Springer, c2016
Available at 7 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The supportive
role of urban spaces in active aging is explored on a world scale in this
unique resource, using the WHO's Age-Friendly Cities and Community model. Case
studies from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and elsewhere demonstrate
how the model translates to fit diverse social, political, and economic realities
across cultures and continents, ways age-friendly programs promote senior
empowerment, and how their value can be effectively assessed. Age-friendly
criteria for communities are defined and critiqued while extensive empirical
data describe challenges as they affect elders globally and how environmental
support can help meet them. These chapters offer age-friendly cities as a
corrective to the overemphasis on the medical aspects of elders' lives, and should
inspire new research, practice, and public policy.
Included in the
coverage:
A critical review of
the WHO Age-Friendly Cities Methodology and its implementation.
Seniors' perspectives on age-friendly
communities.
The implementation of
age-friendly cities in three districts of Argentina.
Age-friendly New York City: a case study.
Toward an age-friendly European Union.
Age-friendliness, childhood, and dementia:
toward generationally intelligent environments.
With its balance
of attention to universal and culture-specific concerns, Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison
will be of particular interest to sociologists, gerontologists, and policymakers.
"Given the rapid adoption of
the age-friendly perspective, following its development by the World Health
Organization, the critical assessment offered in this volume is especially
welcome".
Professor Chris
Phillipson, University of Manchester
Table of Contents
The Challenges of
Aging. - Population aging from a global and theoretical perspective. - Active Aging and Age-Friendly Cities: One
Model, Many Programs. - From the origins of AFC to the WHO global network. -
Quebec: from research to policy from 7 pilot projects to 579 cities. - Sao Paulo:
one action, three levels-state, city, and neighborhoods. - Hong Kong: the
centrality of participation. - Australia: proof of the "top-down" mistake. -
France: is AFC brand new for French cities? Belgium/Wallonia: the limits of the
WHO AFC model. - Waterloo, Ontario: AFC in action. - United States: when AFC is
developed further. - Manchester: is an urban perspective a means or an end? Challenges from and for Age-Friendly
Cities. - Respecting the older subject: building AFC toward recognition. -
The AFC model: between political economy and humanistic gerontology. - When AFC
meets policy. - Good and bad points about AFC . Conclusion
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