Main description:

The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple international and national organizations in the field of aging. Drawing on an extensive collection of international case studies, this volume provides an introduction to the movement. The contributors - both researchers and practitioners - touch on a number of current tensions and issues in the movement and offer a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community development. The book concludes with a call for a radical transformation of a medical and lifestyle model of aging into a relational model of health and social/individual wellbeing.

Contents:

List of Illustrations and Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: Theorizing and Practicing Age-friendly Development

Philip B. Stafford

PART I: EQUITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

Chapter 1. Creating Age-friendly Communities in Urban Environments: Research Issues and Policy Recommendations

Tine Buffel and Chris Phillipson

Chapter 2. Training Advocates to Undertake Livable Community Initiatives: A Pilot Program

Sharon A. Baggett

Chapter 3. Public Places, Community, and the Physical and Mental Health of Children and Elders

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard

Chapter 4. The Intersection between Sustainable and Age-friendly Development

Alan DeLaTorre

PART II: AGE-FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS

Chapter 5. Accessibility, Participation, Networking: The Impact of a Local Network on the Environment and the Life Relationship of Older People

Birgit Wolter

Chapter 6. Assessing the Aging-Friendliness of Two New York City Neighborhoods: A Case Study

Mia R. Oberlink and Barbara S. Davis

PART III: COLLABORATION ACROSS GENERATIONS

Chapter 7. Communities for All Ages: Reinforcing and Reimagining the Social Compact

Corita Brown and Nancy Henkin

Chapter 8. Ibasho Cafe: Giving Elders a Role to Play in Making Communities More Resilient

Emi Kiyota

Chapter 9. Youth and Older Persons as Agents for Change: Creating an Inclusive and Age-Friendly Society for All

Arthur Namara and Kristin Bodiford

PART IV: RURAL AGING

Chapter 10. Retrofitting Small Towns: How Aging in Place Could Transform Rural America

Zachary Benedict

Chapter 11. Creating an Age-Friendly Community in a Depopulated Town in Japan: A Search for Resilient Ways to Cherish New Commons as Local Cultural Resources

Nanami Suzuki

PART V: BEING WELL ENOUGH IN OLD AGE

Chapter 12. Relational Well-Being and Age-Friendly Cities

Marian Barnes

Index