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Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison

Political Lessons, Scientific Avenues, and Democratic Issues

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Editors:
  1. Thibauld Moulaert

    1. Université Catholique de Louvain, School of Public Health, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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  2. Suzanne Garon

    1. and Research Centre on Aging, School of Social Work and Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke, Canada

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Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging (Int. Perspect. Aging)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Toward a Better Understanding of AFCC

    • Thibauld Moulaert, Suzanne Garon
    Pages 1-16

  4. Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: One Model, Many Programs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. It’s About the People…: Seniors’ Perspectives on Age-Friendly Communities

      • John L. Lewis, Arlene Groh
      Pages 81-98

    3. How Can a Research Program Enhance a Policy? AFC-Quebec Governance and Evaluation Opportunities

      • Suzanne Garon, Anne Veil, Mario Paris, Samuèle Rémillard-Boilard
      Pages 99-120

    4. Age-Friendly Hong Kong

      • Grace M. Y. Chan, Vivian W. Q. Lou, Lisanne S. F. Ko
      Pages 121-151

    5. The Implementation of Age-Friendly Cities in Three Districts of Argentina

      • Nélida Redondo, Silvia Gascón
      Pages 153-170

    6. Age-Friendly New York City: A Case Study

      • Lindsay Goldman, Shauneequa Owusu, Caitlyn Smith, Dana Martens, Meghan Lynch
      Pages 171-190

    7. “Age-Friendly Cities” in France: Between Local Dynamics and Segmented Old Age Policy

      • Simone Pennec, Françoise Le Borgne-Uguen
      Pages 191-212

    8. A Belgian Case Study: Lack of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Knowledge and Social Participation Practices in Wallonia

      • Thibauld Moulaert, Geneviève Houioux
      Pages 213-228

    9. Whose Responsibility? Challenges to Creating an Age-Friendly Victoria in the Wider Australian Policy Context

      • Kathleen Brasher, Rachel Winterton
      Pages 229-245

    10. Toward an Age-Friendly European Union

      • Anne-Sophie Parent, Julia Wadoux
      Pages 247-255

  5. Challenges From and For Age-Friendly Cities and Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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    2. Age Friendliness, Childhood, and Dementia: Toward Generationally Intelligent Environments

      • Simon Biggs, Ashley Carr
      Pages 259-276

    3. Active and Healthy Ageing: Blended Models and Common Challenges in Supporting Age-Friendly Cities and Communities

      • Thibauld Moulaert, Kim Boudiny, Mario Paris
      Pages 277-304
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About this book

The supportive role of urban spaces in active aging is explored on a world scale in this unique resource, using the WHO’s Age-Friendly Cities and Community model. Case studies from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and elsewhere demonstrate how the model translates to fit diverse social, political, and economic realities across cultures and continents, ways age-friendly programs promote senior empowerment, and how their value can be effectively assessed. Age-friendly criteria for communities are defined and critiqued while extensive empirical data describe challenges as they affect elders globally and how environmental support can help meet them. These chapters offer age-friendly cities as a corrective to the overemphasis on the medical aspects of elders’ lives, and should inspire new research, practice, and public policy.

Included in the coverage:

  • A critical review of the WHO Age-Friendly Cities Methodology and its implementation.
  • Seniors’ perspectives on age-friendly communities.
  • The implementation of age-friendly cities in three districts of Argentina.
  • Age-friendly New York City: a case study.
  • Toward an age-friendly European Union.
  • Age-friendliness, childhood, and dementia: toward generationally intelligent environments.

With its balance of attention to universal and culture-specific concerns, Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison will be of particular interest to sociologists, gerontologists, and policymakers.

 

“Given the rapid adoption of the age-friendly perspective, following its development by the World Health Organization, the critical assessment offered in this volume is especially welcome”.

Professor Chris Phillipson, University of Manchester


Editors and Affiliations

  • Université Catholique de Louvain, School of Public Health, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Thibauld Moulaert

  • and Research Centre on Aging, School of Social Work and Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke, Canada

    Suzanne Garon

About the editors

Thibauld Moulaert, PhD is Associated professor at the Department of Social Work, University of Sherbrooke, Canada and part-time Invited Professor at the Haute École de la Province de Namur (HEPN), Belgium.  After a postdoctoral Fellowship in sociology at the National Fund for Scientific Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, including a Visiting Research at King’s College London, UK in 2010, he works as a scientific coordinator of a 3 years international project for REAICTIS (Réseau d’Étude International sur l’Âge, la Citoyenneté et l’Intégration Socio-économique) on older people volunteering and on older people citizenship and environments. His first book Governing the End of the Career at a Distance. Outplacement and Active Ageing in Employment (Peter Lang, 2012) received a prize for publication from the Fondation Universitaire; in 2013, he co-edited,with Jean-Philippe Viriot Durandal , a special issue on New perspectives on ageing through the ‘duty of ageing well’ for the international review Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison

  • Book Subtitle: Political Lessons, Scientific Avenues, and Democratic Issues

  • Editors: Thibauld Moulaert, Suzanne Garon

  • Series Title: International Perspectives on Aging

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24031-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24029-9Published: 21 January 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79570-6Published: 30 March 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24031-2Published: 01 December 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2197-5841

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-585X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 337

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Aging, Community and Environmental Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

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