The Age-friendly Lens

The book explores the concept of age-friendly environments and how they can improve our understanding of ageism. It covers various topics, including education, health, and justice systems, and includes case studies to encourage critical engagement with ageism. The book is designed to stimulate research, policy, and public interest in the physical, social, and regulatory environments in which we age, and is recommended reading for policy makers, politicians, think tanks, and lobbyists. Chapter 13 is available as a downloadable Open Access PDF.

Format: Hardback
Length: 236 pages
Publication date: 05 August 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book explores the concept of age-friendly environments and how they can contribute to changing our attitudes, feelings, and behaviors towards aging and age-related issues. It adopts a multi-perspectivity approach, drawing from traditionally distinct fields, to demonstrate the theoretical and applied dimensions of the age-friendly global agenda. The book covers a wide range of topics, including education, health, and justice systems, which have been underrepresented in age-friendly scholarship. The case studies included in the book encourage critical engagement with the issue of ageism in age-friendly scholarship. They provide a clear understanding of the inequalities, challenges, and opportunities of aging and the ways in which international, regional, national, and sub-national commitments in health, development, and human rights are impacted by aging. The essays utilize a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue to enhance discussion of the age-friendly environment agenda, including age-friendly perspectives in addition to its processes and destinations in an aging society. The book serves as a catalyst to stimulate research, policy, and public interest in the physical, social, and regulatory environments in which we age and the consequent impact upon health and well-being. It is recommended reading for professors, graduate students, and undergraduate students in policy, sociology, health, planning, and gerontology, as well as policy makers, politicians, think tanks, and lobbyists who are concerned with age-all-inclusiveness. Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF.

Weight: 640g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367482114