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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.
List of contents
Part One: Age-friendly Systems
1. An Introduction to 'The Age-friendly Lens'
2. The Age-friendly Lens: Past, Present and Future
3. Horizontal and Vertical Mainstreaming of the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Programme: Lessons from Toronto
4. Access to Justice and Legal Assistance in an Age-Friendly World
5. Age-Friendly Health Systems
6. Developing the Age-Friendly University Global Network
7. The Age-friendly Movement in an Asian Context
Part Two: Age-friendly Housing and Accommodation
8. Care Homes and Communities: A Human Rights Approach to Age-friendliness
9. The Participation of Older People in Concepting and Designing New Housing Facilities in the Netherlands
10. ‘Grandly Designing’ Cohousing for Older People in Australia: Overcoming the Challenges
11. An Age-friendly Lens on the Renewal of Housing Resources in Poland
12. Certification as a Tool to Deliver Age-friendly Homes at Scale
13. International Standardisation of Products and Services for Ageing Societies: Promoting the Global Application of an Age-friendly Lens
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
