Transport, Travel and Later Life

This book, set within a social gerontology and transport behaviour studies paradigm, examines current debates and issues around transport for older people and its relationship to health and wellbeing for individuals and society as a whole.

About the author

Dr Charles Musselwhite is Associate Professor in Gerontology at the Centre for Innovative Ageing (CIA) at Swansea University, UK, leading the Environments and Ageing research strand. His research interests involve ageing, travel and transport, addressing technological, environmental, health and sustainability contexts of transportation and built environment studies. Charles has advised the United Kingdom (UK) parliament on older people's transport issues and is an Executive committee member of the British Society of Gerontology (BSG), where he is editor of their journal, Generations Review. He is an Associate Editor for Journal of Transport & Health and on the editorial board for Ageing and Society journal.

Product details

• Assisted by: Charles Musselwhite (Editor)
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2017
• EAN: 9781787146242
• ISBN: 978-1-78714-624-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 518 g
• Subject: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > General, dictionaries, handbooks