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Developing age-friendly work in the twenty-first century
— new challenges and agendas | | Author(s) | Christopher Phillipson |
| Journal title | Working With Older People, vol 22, no 1, 2018 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2018 |
| Pages | pp 3-8 |
| Source | http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi.wwop |
| Keywords | Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Poverty ; Economics ; Public expenditure cuts ; Urban renewal ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | This paper reviews factors influencing the development of age-friendly communities, pressures arising from the context of economic austerity, and issues which need to be considered for further work. A synthesis of academic literature covering age-friendly research and other relevant studies finds pressures on the age-friendly movement including: cuts to the budgets of local authorities; impact of urban regeneration; and high levels of deprivation in inner city communities. Responses need to consider: closer links with other urban programmes (e.g. healthy cities); prioritising the challenge of social inequality; exerting great control over urban development and regeneration; and devising new approaches to delivering age-friendly interventions at a neighbourhood level. Although the age-friendly movement has many achievements to its name, economic pressures are raising question marks about its future progress. The paper identifies several options for future development. Central to these must be linking age-friendly debates to the inequalities and injustices which affect city life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180323209 A |
| Classmark | RH: TOB: W6: W: WN8:5YD: RRJ: 64A |
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