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Environmental gerontology for the future
— community-based living for the third age | | Author(s) | Lyn Geboy, Keith Diaz Moore, Erin Kate Smith |
| Journal title | Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 26, nos 1-3, January-September 2012 |
| Pages | pp 44-61 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Housing [elderly] ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Retirement communities ; Amenities ; Architectural design ; Needs [elderly] ; Consumer choice. |
| Annotation | The viability of the field of environmental gerontology depends upon whether it can make itself practically relevant by helping to resolve some of the urgent, real-world problems facing older adults. Many of the problems relate to which and how residential environments might best forward the goals and aspirations of an ageing population. More attention should be directed toward improving the environments of choice of older adults, which are not institutional settings, but rather their own homes located in neighbourhoods and communities. To help direct attention, this article begins by linking the concept of the Third Age with theories of environmental gerontology and summarises key empirical understandings of autonomy and security at the community level because these are the essential environmental attributes for the Third Age. Taking into account contextual issues for community-based living for ageing suggests that relocation in the pursuit of residential normalcy ought to produce a diversity of environmental responses. Different ways in which three models of community-based living in the Third Age are sketched out, namely: the leisure-oriented retirement community, the naturally occurring retirement community and the villages model. The authors show how these models reflect contextual issues as they relate to residential environments for the Third Age. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121026052 A |
| Classmark | KE: RH: ROA: R8: YB3: IK: WYC |
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