Age-Friendly Lens, Hardcover by Gardiner, Christie M. (EDT); Webb, Eileen

by Gardiner, Christie M. (EDT); Webb, Eileen (EDT)

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Age-Friendly Lens, Hardcover by Gardiner, Christie M. (EDT); Webb, Eileen (EDT), ISBN 0367482118, ISBN-13 9780367482114, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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 etc. impact and are impacted by ageing through designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating policies and programs. 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. Th serves as a catalyst to stimulate research, policy and public interest in the p

• ISBN: 9780367482114
• Condition: Fine

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