Handbook on Aging and Place

Edited by Malcolm Cutchin, Professor, School of Occupational Therapy, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences and Graham D. Rowles, Emeritus Professor, Graduate Center for Gerontology, University of Kentucky, US

Contents

Preface xvi
Acknowledgment xvii

PART I ON THE NATURE OF PLACE AND AGING
1 Introduction to the Handbook on Aging and Place 2
Malcolm Cutchin and Graham D. Rowles

PART II PERSPECTIVES ON PLACE AND AGING
2 Geographical gerontology: knowing place in five ways 15
Gavin J. Andrews
3 Theorizing place and aging: enduring and novel issues in environmental
gerontology 37
Frank Oswald, Hans-Werner Wahl, Anna Wanka, and Habib Chaudhury
4 Life course perspectives on place 61
Kieran Walsh
5 Making a place for inclusive ways of knowing home and aging 82
Kate de Medeiros and Polina Ermoshkina
6 Non-Western perspectives on aging and place 101
Mark W. Rosenberg, Yang Cheng, María-Eugenia Prieto-Flores, and
Joseph Asumah Braimah
7 The emplaced and embodied experience of living with dementia 120
Habib Chaudhury, Richard Ward, and Kishore Seetharaman
8 Aging and therapeutic landscapes 141
Christine Milligan
9 Interventional perspectives: place integration and being in place 161
Malcolm Cutchin and Graham D. Rowles

PART III CORE PLACES OF AGING
10 Home and aging 183
Janine Wiles and Tara Coleman
11 Going to work in others’ homes: older women in the caregiving workforce 201
Philip Taylor, Phillippa Carnemolla, and Jane Bringolf
12 Aging in third places 221
Jessica Finlay, Melissa Cannon, Gabriella Meltzer, and Jarmin Yeh
13 Neighborhoods and aging 240
Carri Hand and Catherine Bigonnesse
14 Aging in the urban context 259
Chris Phillipson, Patty Doran, Sophie Yarker, and Tine Buffel
15 Rural places and aging: between aging in place and stuck in place 277
Elizabeth Russell

PART IV MAKING AND REMAKING PLACES FOR AGING
16 Aging, architecture, and place-making 294
Keith Diaz Moore
17 Housing and place in the context of aging and health 313
Susanne Iwarsson
18 Aging in the right places and older people’s adoption of
gerontechnology solutions 329
Stephen M. Golant
19 Contemporary community models for places to grow old 351
Keith A. Anderson, Michelle D. Hand, and Tess E. Schleitwiler
20 Age-friendly communities 367
Amanda J. Lehning and Sol Baik
21 Aging and place in the context of shared senior residential settings 386
Margaret Calkins, Migette Kaup, and Addie Abushousheh
22 Aging, place, and migration 405
Vanessa Burholt
PART V AGING AND PLACE: AN AGENDA
23 Envisioning a future: toward an agenda for the study of aging and place 426
Graham D. Rowles and Malcolm Cutchin
Index 436