The Environments of Ageing: Space, Place and Materiality

by Sheila Peace

Overview

Providing the first UK assessment of environmental gerontology, this book enriches current understanding of the spatiality of ageing. Sheila Peace considers how places and spaces contextualise personal experience in varied environments, from urban and rural to general and specialised housing. Situating extensive research within multidisciplinary thinking, and incorporating policy and practice, this book assesses how personal health and wellbeing affect different experiences of environment. It also considers the value of intergenerational and age-related living, the meaning of home and global to local concerns for population ageing. Drawing on international comparisons, this book offers a valuable resource for new research and important lessons for the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447321620
Publisher:	Policy Press
Publication date:	02/24/2022
Series:	Ageing in a Global Context
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	410
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Sheila Peace is Emeritus Professor of Social Gerontology in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University. A social geographer by first discipline Sheila is known internationally as a social and environmental gerontologist.

Table of Contents

Preface: Understanding the Structure 1. Person and Environment

2. Theoretical Development

3. The Global Context

4. Environmental Living

5. Housing in Later Life

6. Housing Histories, Housing Options

7. Alternative Environments: Specialised Housing (with care)

8. Care Home Living: A Form of Long-term Care

9. Methodological Development

10. Re-thinking the Spatiality of Ageing

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“An impressive range of topics in theory, research, practice and policy on diverse environmental settings for ageing. An invaluable resource to understand contemporary issues, challenges and possibilities of the places and spaces in later life.” Habib Chaudhury, Simon Fraser University

"'The Environments of Ageing' offers a comprehensive view of places and spaces from a scholar who helped shape our understanding of contexts from home to global." Norah C. Keating, Swansea University, UK, University of Alberta, Canada and North-West University, South Africa

Editorial Reviews

"This book represents a large part of the author’s career in gerontology, and provides a unique perspective on environmental and geographical gerontology. Apart from reviewing a substantial body of research and theory, it provides researchers and policymakers with many suggestions for further work." International Journal of Housing Policy

From the Publisher