Research Catalog

Title

Environmental gerontology : making meaningful places in old age / Graham D. Rowles, Ph.D., Miriam Bernard, Ph.D., editors.

Publication

New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, [2013]

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Additional Authors

• Rowles, Graham D.
• Bernard, Miriam
• Rowles, Graham D., Ph. D.

Description

pages cm

Summary

"The environments in which people live out their later lives have a strong impact on their identity and provide opportunities for nourishing social interactions. This volume translates the insights derived from contemporary research on residential environments and public spaces that enhance well-being into practical recommendations for the design of such beneficial community environments. The text is grounded in the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of current research on place attachment, environmental meaning, and community living in later life. Emphasis is placed on how to design residential spaces that facilitate the development of a sense of place or home, and investigation is made into the kinds of lifestyles such spaces foster and support. A major theme pervading the text is the juxtaposition of private and public space. The book also addresses such themes as the transformation of spaces into places of personal identification and attachment, the need for shared intergenerational spaces, and consideration of diverse populations when designing public spaces. The book also considers how emerging public policy agendas affect the development and management of environments for the elderly. Environmental Gerontology includes the contributions of scholars in anthropology, architecture, economics, education, geography, gerontology, planning, psychology, sociology, and numerous health sciences, who hail from North America, Europe, and Asia. With its strong interdisciplinary focus, this text offers innovative and judicious recommendations for the creation of community environments that are truly beneficial for older adults."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Older people > Planning
• Public spaces > Social aspects
• Home > Social aspects
• Aging > Social aspects
• Housing for the Elderly
• Aged
• Planning Techniques
• Social Planning

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I: Introduction to the meaning of place in residential and public spaces. The meaning and significance of place in old age ; Social interactions in public spaces and places: a conceptual overview. -- Part II: Private residences. Creating and sustaining homelike places in own home environments ; A place of one's own: Reinterpreting the meaning of home among childless older women. -- Part III: Long-term care environments. The complex process of becoming at-home in assisted living ; Creating homelike places in institutional care settings in Ireland ; Remembering home in remembered places. -- Part IV: Public spaces. Mobility in Outdoor Environments in Old Age ; Older people's use of unfamiliar space ; Building relational spaces and places: Intergenerational pathways for entering into the mainstream of life ; Creating homelike places in a purpose-built retirement village in England. -- Part V: Challenges of application. Past, present and future in designing private and public environments for creating and sustaining place.

ISBN

• 9780826108135
• 082610813X
• 9780826108142 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012039805

OCLC

748339228

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library