Age-friendly cities and communities in international comparison : political lessons, scientific avenues, and democratic issues

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    • Moulaert, Thibauld
    • Garon, Suzanne

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Age-friendly cities and communities in international comparison : political lessons, scientific avenues, and democratic issues

Thibauld Moulaert, Suzanne Garon, editors

(International perspectives on aging, v. 14)

Springer, c2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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

目次

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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