Sustainable Neighbourhoods for Ageing in Place
An Interdisciplinary Voice Against Global Crises
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Beschreibung
This timely book provides an understanding of how an ageing population can maintain health in the ageing process in their preferred homes and neighbourhoods while coping with global crises of climate change events, infectious diseases, systemic violence, and radical or extreme industrialisation. It is the first-known volume to consider the four crises as health and social threats to healthy longevity from a sustainability perspective.
The book is a collection of commentaries, theoretical frameworks, case studies, and empirical evidence that: (1) provides an analysis of how the crises affect neighbourhood attributes and the ability of residents to use them to maintain health while living in their preferred neighbourhoods, and (2) suggests potential interventions for enabling residents to utilise these attributes for health while living at home in contexts experiencing the crises. Contributions are authored by scholars and practitioners from various disciplines including public health, health care, architecture, engineering, human resources development, information technology, and finance. Among the topics covered:
- The Impact of Crises on Older Adults’ Health and Function: An Intergenerational Perspective
- A Behavioural Approach to Sustainable Neighbourhoods: A Philosophical Construction of a Friendly Neighbourhood
- Assistive Technologies for Ageing in Place: A Theoretical Proposition of Human Development Postulates
- “Sustainable Ageing” in a World of Crises
This timely book provides an understanding of how an ageing population can maintain health in the ageing process in their preferred homes and neighbourhoods while coping with global crises of climate change events, infectious diseases, systemic violence, and radical or extreme industrialisation. It is the first-known volume to consider the four crises as health and social threats to healthy longevity from a sustainability perspective.
The book is a collection of commentaries, theoretical frameworks, case studies, and empirical evidence that: (1) provides an analysis of how the crises affect neighbourhood attributes and the ability of residents to use them to maintain health while living in their preferred neighbourhoods, and (2) suggests potential interventions for enabling residents to utilise these attributes for health while living at home in contexts experiencing the crises. Contributions are authored by scholars and practitioners from various disciplines including public health, health care, architecture, engineering, human resources development, information technology, and finance. Among the topics covered:
- The Impact of Crises on Older Adults’ Health and Function: An Intergenerational Perspective
- A Behavioural Approach to Sustainable Neighbourhoods: A Philosophical Construction of a Friendly Neighbourhood
- Assistive Technologies for Ageing in Place: A Theoretical Proposition of Human Development Postulates
- “Sustainable Ageing” in a World of Crises
Is the first-known book to discuss how current global events affect sustainability, ageing & the health of older adults Presents models and techniques for redesigning or managing neighborhoods against current global events Provides relevant didactic elements and a descriptive content well-suited for teaching and student learning
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Nestor Asiamah
Themen in »Sustainable Neighbourhoods for Ageing in Place«
Ageing in place Empowering older adults Climate change Pandemics and infectious diseases War and violence Industrialization Age-friendly communities Sustainability Pro-health neighbourhood attributes and global events Sustainable neighbourhoods Neighborhood inclusiveness Behavioural moderators of walkability and social activity Neighbourhood safety and elderly abuse Human development Health, social and community service utilisation