ABSTRACT

During recent years, an increasing amount of academic research has focused on older people with a particular emphasis on settings, places and spaces. This book provides a comprehensive review of research and the policy area of 'ageing and place'.

An insightful book on an important topic, Andrews and Phillips have together edited a valuable information and reference source for those with interests in the spatial dimensions of ageing in the twenty-first century. Ranging from macro-scale perspectives on the distribution of older populations on national scales, to the meaning of specific local places and settings to older individuals, on the micro-scale, the book spans an entire range of research traditions and international perspectives.

chapter |6 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 2|11 pages

PLACING AGEING

Positionings in the study of older people

chapter 5|18 pages

RESIDENTIAL HOMES

From distributions in space to the elements of place

chapter 13|12 pages

CATALOGUING OLD AGE