ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the conceptual, theoretical and empirical contributions that geographers have made to the social and cultural geographies of ageing. It explores four distinctive themes that range from the intimate and micro-level of the body to the community and urban form. First, it focuses on the interrelationships among embodiment, ageism and place; second, how geographers have contributed to issues of gender and ageing. The third theme focuses on geographies of intergenerationality, ageing and the life course and finally, discusses the specific contributions that geographical gerontology has made to understand the connections between ageing and the urban form. A dominant idea about ageing in place has meant that the relationship between ageing, migration and transnationality has received relatively limited attention. However, the emergence of a small body of work has begun to draw out the relationship between ageing and migration processes–predominantly as a counterbalance to the framing of migration as a process experienced by young people.
