Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: A Global Perspective

✍ Scribed by Tine Buffel (editor); Sophie Handler (editor); Chris Phillipson (editor)

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in urban areas. In this book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, leading international researchers critically assess the problems and the potential of designing age-friendly environments. The book considers the different ways in which cities are responding to population ageing, the different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and the extent to which older people themselves can be involved in the co-production of age-friendly policies and practices. The book includes a manifesto for the age-friendly movement, focused around tackling social inequality and promoting community empowerment.

✦ Table of Contents

AGE-FRIENDLY CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
Contents
List of tables and figures
Tables
Figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Series editors’ preface
Part . 1Age-friendly cities and communities: background, theory and development
1. Introduction
Background
Aims and key research questions
Origins of the book
Structure of the book
2. The development of age-friendly cities and communities
Introduction
Development of the WHO age-friendly programme
Implementation of age-friendly policies and initiatives
Developing age-friendly cities and communities: from policy to research
Age-friendly cities and communities: findings from research
Conclusion
3. Neighbourhood change, social inequalities and age-friendly communities
Introduction
Changing views of community
The relevance of the neighbourhood for older people
The impact of global change
Engaging older adults in age-friendly communities
Policy strategies to promote age-friendliness
Conclusion
4. Addressing erasure, microfication and social change: age-friendly initiatives and environmental gerontology in the 21st century
Introduction
The development of environmental gerontology
Challenge 1: microfication
Challenge 2: erasure
Social change and emergent macro-level forces
Conclusion
Part 2. Case studies from Europe, Asia and Australia
5. Age and gentrification in Berlin: urban ageing policy and the experiences of disadvantaged older people
Introduction
Age and gentrification in Berlin
Ageing policy in Berlin
Coping with care needs and low income in Moabit
Conclusion
6. Towards an ‘active caring community’ in Brussels
Introduction
Facts and figures about Brussels
Active Caring Community
How can an active caring community support age-friendliness?
Discussion
Conclusion: critical reflections
7. Exploring the age-friendliness of Hong Kong: opportunities, initiatives and challenges in an ageing Asian city
Introduction
The AFCC experience in the context of other Asian countries
The Hong Kong perspective on age-friendly cities
Hong Kong service provision and local AFCC initiatives
Conclusion
8. Creating an age-friendly county in Ireland: stakeholders’ perspectives on implementation
Introduction
Background: overview of demographic, economic and policy context in Ireland
Development of AFCC and Fingal AFC programme
Implementation: stakeholders’ perspectives
Discussion and conclusion
9. Implementing age-friendly cities in Australia
Introduction
An ageing Australia and urban change
Older people’s experiences of urban environments
Implementation and challenges
Interpretation and directions
Conclusion
Part 3. Age-friendly policies, urban design and a manifesto for change
10. From representation to active ageing in a Manchester neighbourhood: designing the age-friendly city
Introduction
Capability, design and active ageing
Capability in an age-friendly Manchester: the case of Old Moat
Research and design: from representation to involvement to activity
Beyond representation
Involving older people in locality research and design
Active research and design
Conclusion
11. Alternative age-friendly initiatives: redefining age-friendly design
Introduction
Challenging the orthodoxies of age-friendly design
The socially engaged designer
Redefining age-friendly design
Expanding the field of age-friendly practice
Challenging the objects of age-friendly design
Critical interventions in age-friendly policy
Conclusion
12. Developing age-friendly policies for cities: strategies, challenges and reflections
Introduction
The social and demographic characteristics of Manchester
The evolution of Age-Friendly Manchester: 1990s
Valuing Older People programme: 2000s
Age-friendly Manchester: 2010 onwards
Implementing age-friendly policies in the context of economic austerity
Developing city-regional approaches to age-friendliness
Conclusion
13. The age-friendly community: a test for inclusivity
Introduction
Testing the principles of the AFCC
Sight loss in later life: the UK example
Stigma, sight loss and ageing: is this an excluded group?
Researching age-friendly communities: recognising diversity
Spending the day
Can the AFCC mission be socially inclusive for people with vision impairment?
14. Age-friendly cities and communities: a manifesto for change
Introduction
Acknowledging urban complexity
Prioritising home and neighbourhood
Challenging social inequality and exclusion
Increasing diversity
Facilitating community empowerment
Co-producing age-friendly communities
Developing creative and participatory age-friendly design
Encouraging multisectorial and multidisciplinary collaboration
Integrating research with policy
Strengthening international networking
Index