This book engages with the concept of age-friendly environments,
adopting multi-perspectivity to demonstrate how age-friendly
environments can contribute to shifting how we think, feel and act
toward issues of age and ageing and operate as a vehicle to improve
understandings of ageism.
Drawing from traditionally distinct fields, the text demonstrates
theoretical and applied dimensions of the age-friendly global agenda,
with several chapters discussing topics that have to date been
underrepresented in age-friendly scholarship, including education,
health and justice systems. The case studies encourage critical
engagement with the issue of ageism in age-friendly scholarship. It
presents a clear understanding of the inequalities, challenges and
opportunities of ageing and of the ways international, regional,
national and sub-national commitments in health, development and human
rights, and are further impacted by, ageing through designing,
implementing, monitoring and evaluating policies and programmes. The
essays utilise a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue to enhance
discussion of the age-friendly environment agenda through the inclusion
of age-friendly perspectives in addition to its processes and
destinations in an ageing 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 will be of
interest to professors, graduate students and undergraduate students in
policy, sociology, health, planning and gerontology. It is also
recommended reading for policy makers, politicians, think tanks and
lobbyists, who are concerned with age all-age-inclusiveness.
