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Cross-National Perspectives on Aging and Place: Implications for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities.
Woolrych, Ryan; Sixsmith, Judith; Duvvuru, Jamuna; Portella, Adriana; Fang, Mei Lan; Menezes, Deborah; Henderson, James; Fisher, Jenny; Lawthom, Rebecca.
Afiliação
  • Woolrych R; The Urban Institute, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Sixsmith J; School of Nursing and Health Science, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
  • Duvvuru J; Department of Psychology, Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam (Women's University), Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
  • Portella A; School of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil.
  • Fang ML; School of Nursing and Health Science, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
  • Menezes D; The Urban Institute, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Henderson J; The Urban Institute, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Fisher J; Department of Health, Psychology and Communities, Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, UK.
  • Lawthom R; School of Education, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Gerontologist ; 62(1): 119-129, 2022 01 14.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34791252
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND

OBJECTIVES:

The age-friendly cities and communities (AFCC) agenda has led to a range of policy initiatives aimed at supporting aging in place for older people. While there is case study evidence of how people age across urban contexts, there has been little research exploring cross-national understandings of age-friendly places among older people. The objective of this article is to identify the place experiences of older people living across cities and communities in India, Brazil, and the United Kingdom and to discuss implications for the AFCC agenda. RESEARCH DESIGN AND

METHODS:

A total of 300 semistructured interviews were undertaken with older people across 9 cities and 27 communities in India, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis undertaken by each national team and then discussed and revised at collaborative workshops with researchers from each of the 3 country teams.

RESULTS:

The data capture the ways in which place is constructed from the perspective of older people drawing upon social, community, and cultural dimensions of aging across diverse urban environments. We explore how older people negotiate place in the context of their everyday life and identify the relational and interconnected ways in which place attachment, belonging, and identity are constructed. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS Age-friendly interventions need to attend to the changing physical, social and cultural dimensions of aging and place. Integrated place-making practices are required to support older people to age in the right place across rapidly transforming urban contexts globally.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Envelhecimento / Vida Independente Tipo de estudo: Qualitative_research Limite: Aged / Humans País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil / Europa Idioma: En Revista: Gerontologist Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Reino Unido

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Envelhecimento / Vida Independente Tipo de estudo: Qualitative_research Limite: Aged / Humans País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil / Europa Idioma: En Revista: Gerontologist Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Reino Unido