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| Older people 'on the edge' in the countrysides of Europe | | Author(s) | George Giacinto Giarchi |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Administration, vol 40, no 6, December 2006 |
| Pages | pp 705-721 |
| Source | http://www.blackwell-synergy.com |
| Keywords | Poor elderly ; Rural areas ; Urban areas ; Comparison ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Relatively few comparative studies have focused specifically upon the socioeconomic conditions affecting the welfare of older rural Europeans. Such publications as exist are usually confined to single studies. In presenting a European overview of their 'life-world', this paper focuses on the general conditions of older rural Europeans living in different types of countryside within a centre-periphery framework. These conditions are largely dependent upon the interconnectivity (nexus) between regional urban centres and the older people's types of settlement. The extent of the global socioeconomic focus between urban centres and countryside is critical, especially for those living in less accessible and remote areas. Older people's positive and negative outcomes are seen to occur within four possible urban-rural parameters. The first consists of two-way socioeconomic urban-rural flows that are more likely to be of benefit to significant numbers of older people, especially in urban fringes and accessible countryside. The second parameter arises when there is a long-standing response, where the lack of communication between the rural locality and urban centre hampers socioeconomic rural-urban flows, isolating older people, particularly in less accessible and remote countryside. The third occurs when regional and local urban centres block or cut back socioeconomic flows to the countryside. The fourth takes place where the rural communities resist socioeconomic urban flows that they regard as a threat to their rural idyll. Exemplars within each of the four urban-rural alternatives help to show the applicability and workability of this four-way exploratory approach. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061115209 A |
| Classmark | F:W6: RL: RK: 48: 74 |
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