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How can we design, develop and adapt urban environments to better meet the needs and aspirations of an increasingly diverse ageing population?
This edited collection offers a new approach to understanding the opportunities and challenges of creating ‘age-friendly’ communities in the context of urban change. Drawing together insights from leading voices across a range of disciplines, the book emphasises the urgent need to address inequalities that shape the experience of ageing in urban environments.
The book combines a focus on social justice, equity, diversity and co-production to enhance urban life. Exploring a range of age-friendly community projects, contributors demonstrate that, despite structural obstacles, meaningful social change is achievable at a local level.
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Part 1: Civic Engagement in Later Life: Conceptual and Methodological Aspects
1. A Conceptual Framework to Understand Civic Engagement in Later Life – Rodrigo Serrat
2. What Characterises Civic Engagement in Later Life? Micro-, Meso- And Macro-Level Influences – Toon Vercauteren, Fredrica Nyqvist and Marina Näsman
3. A Life-Course Approach to Civic Engagement in Later Life – Sandra Torres and Rodrigo Serrat
Part 2: Understanding Multidimensional Civic Engagement in Later Life
4. Informal Helping Behaviours in Later Life – Montserrat Celdrán and Karima Chacur-Kiss
5. Associational Membership in Later Life – Fredrica Nyqvist, Mikael Nygård and Emilia Häkkinen
6. Older People’s Formal Volunteering – Sarah Dury, Erin Grinshteyn and Marja Aartsen
7. Older People’s Political Participation – Rodrigo Serrat and Clemens Tesch-Römer
8. Digital Civic Engagement in Later Life – Arlind Reuter and Thomas Scharf
Part 3: Civic Engagement Within a Diverse Older Population
9. Older People with Disabilities – Dolores Majón-Valpuesta and Mélanie Levasseur
10. Older People Living in Residential Aged-Care Facilities – Feliciano Villar and Inma Peiró-Milián
11. Older People with Diverse Migrant Backgrounds – Pernilla Ågård and Sandra Torres
12. Older People Living in Disadvantaged Urban Neighbourhoods – Bas Dikmans, Sarah Dury and Liesbeth De Donder
13. Older People Living in Rural Communities – Rachel Winterton, Mark Skinner and Kieran Walsh
Part 4: Future Directions for Policy and Research Into Late Life Civic Engagement
14. Looking Back and Moving Forward: Future Directions for Research on Civic Engagement in Later Life – Rodrigo Serrat
Sobre el autor
Sophie Yarker is Lecturer in Health Geography at the University of Salford.
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