Research Catalog

Title

The environment for aging : interpersonal, social, and spatial contexts / Russell A. Ward, Mark La Gory, Susan R. Sherman.

Author

Ward, Russell A.

Publication

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1988.

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Additional Authors

• La Gory, Mark, 1947-
• Sherman, Susan (Susan R.)

Description

xii, 256 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The nature and consequences of aging depend on its environmental context, and the literature does not treat the various environmental dimensions in an integrated fashion. The authors introduce a general approach to the human ecosystem, highlighting theoretical and empirical issues necessary to an understanding of person-environment interaction related to aging. They then investigate in detail three aspects of the environment of older persons: residential and neighborhood, interpersonal support networks, and age-related attitudes. They give specific attention to the impact of the age composition of neighborhoods and interpersonal networks. The authors present findings from their interview survey of 1,185 community residents aged 60 and over.

Subject

• Older people > United States
• Environmental psychology
• Older people > Dwellings > United States
• Older people > United States > Psychology
• Social ecology
• environmental psychology
• housing for the elderly
• human ecology
• Social ecology
• Environmental psychology
• Older people
• Older people > Dwellings
• Older people > Psychology
• Alter
• Umwelt
• Aged > psychology
• Housing for the Elderly
• Social Environment
• Environmental Psychology
• United States
• USA

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 243-253.

ISBN

• 0817303421
• 9780817303426

LCCN

86024940

OCLC

• ocm14359058
• 14359058
• SCSB-1192889

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library