The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement

Philip B. Stafford is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University in Bloomington, and was Director of the Indiana University Center on Aging and Community until 2017. His research, primarily ethnographic and participatory, has focused on aging and sense of place. He has received the Blackburn award from the Indiana chapter of the AIA for contributions to architecture by a non-architect and is a member of the board of the American Society on Aging.

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Preface



Introduction: Theorizing and Practicing Age-friendly Development

Philip B. Stafford



PART I: EQUITY AND SUSTAINABILITY



Chapter 1. Creating Age-friendly Communities in Urban Environments: Research Issues and Policy Recommendations

Tine Buffel and Chris Phillipson



Chapter 2. Training Advocates to Undertake Livable Community Initiatives: A Pilot Program

Sharon A. Baggett



Chapter 3. Public Places, Community, and the Physical and Mental Health of Children and Elders

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard



Chapter 4. The Intersection between Sustainable and Age-friendly Development

Alan DeLaTorre



PART II: AGE-FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS



Chapter 5. Accessibility, Participation, Networking: The Impact of a Local Network on the Environment and the Life Relationship of Older People

Birgit Wolter



Chapter 6. Assessing the Aging-Friendliness of Two New York City Neighborhoods: A Case Study

Mia R. Oberlink and Barbara S. Davis



PART III: COLLABORATION ACROSS GENERATIONS



Chapter 7. Communities for All Ages:  Reinforcing and Reimagining the Social Compact

Corita Brown and Nancy Henkin



Chapter 8. Ibasho Café: Giving Elders a Role to Play in Making Communities More Resilient

Emi Kiyota



Chapter 9. Youth and Older Persons as Agents for Change: Creating an Inclusive and Age-Friendly Society for All

Arthur Namara and Kristin Bodiford



PART IV: RURAL AGING



Chapter 10. Retrofitting Small Towns: How Aging in Place Could Transform Rural America

Zachary Benedict



Chapter 11. Creating an Age-Friendly Community in a Depopulated Town in Japan: A Search for Resilient Ways to Cherish New Commons as Local Cultural Resources

Nanami Suzuki



PART V: BEING WELL ENOUGH IN OLD AGE



Chapter 12. Relational Well-Being and Age-Friendly Cities

Marian Barnes



Index