1st Edition
The Age-friendly Lens
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.
Part One: Age-friendly Systems
1. An Introduction to 'The Age-friendly Lens'
Christie M. Gardiner and Eileen O'Brien Webb
2. The Age-friendly Lens: Past, Present and Future
Alexandre Kalache, Marilia Louvison and Alexandre da Silva
3. Horizontal and Vertical Mainstreaming of the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Programme: Lessons from Toronto
Meghan Joy
4. Access to Justice and Legal Assistance in an Age-Friendly World
Bill Mitchell
5. Age-Friendly Health Systems
Terry Fulmer, Amy Berman, Benjamin Lesiak, Shrien Alshabasy and Nicole Levy
6. Developing the Age-Friendly University Global Network
Christine O’Kelly
7. The Age-friendly Movement in an Asian Context
Yi Sun, Tzu-Yuan Stessa Chao, Doreen W.H. Au, Esther H.K. Yung and Jean Woo
Part Two: Age-friendly Housing and Accommodation
8. Care Homes and Communities: A Human Rights Approach to Age-friendliness
John Williams
9. The Participation of Older People in Concepting and Designing New Housing Facilities in the Netherlands
Joost van Hoof, Katja M. Rusinovic, Zsuzsu. K.C.T. Tavy, Rudy F.M. van den Hoven, Jeroen Dikken, Suzan van der Pas, Hanneke Kruize, Simone R. de Bruin and Marianne van Bochove
10. ‘Grandly Designing’ Cohousing for Older People in Australia: Overcoming the Challenges
Jane Knowler and Eileen O'Brien Webb
11. An Age-friendly Lens on the Renewal of Housing Resources in Poland
Agnieszka Labus and Iwona Benek
12. Certification as a Tool to Deliver Age-friendly Homes at Scale
Menno Hinkema, Estelle Huchet and Silvia Urra Uriarte
13. International Standardisation of Products and Services for Ageing Societies: Promoting the Global Application of an Age-friendly Lens
Sabrina Pit, Anne Livingstone, Adriana Ciacaru, Nele Zgavc and Allison Williams
Biography
Christie M. Gardiner, LLM GDLP LLB (Hons), SFHEA, is an Australian lawyer and Associate Lecturer of Law at Australia’s leading clinical law school, Newcastle Law School, the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Eileen O’Brien Webb is Professor of Law and Ageing in the Law, Justice and Society discipline at the University of South Australia. Her research focuses on the impact of the law on an ageing population, particularly in the areas of housing and accommodation, elder abuse, age discrimination and human rights.