| Description |
1 online resource (395 p.) |
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Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning Ser |
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Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Introducing rural gerontology -- Part II Interdisciplinary foundations -- 2 Demographic ageing and rural population change -- 3 Rural studies of ageing -- 4 Rural health and ageing: making way for a critical gerontology of rural health -- 5 Critical human ecology and global contexts of rural ageing -- 6 Critical social gerontology and rural ageing -- Part III Contemporary scope -- 7 Rural ageing in low- and middle-income countries |
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8 Rural women, ageing and retirement -- 9 Rural-urban migration of older people: mobility, adaptation and accessibility -- 10 Policy and program challenges in delivering health and social care services to rural older people -- 11 Rural ageing, housing and homelessness -- 12 Rural ageing and transportation: how a lack of transportation options can leave older rural populations stranded -- 13 Rural community development in an era of population ageing -- 14 Making rural communities age-friendly: issues and challenges -- 15 Rural ageing in place and place attachment |
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16 Place-bound rural community of older men: social and autobiographical insideness of the Mill Village Boys in Finland -- 17 Social relations, connectivity and loneliness of older rural people -- 18 Understanding and performing care in rural contexts in Central Europe -- Part IV Emerging critical perspectives -- 19 Postcolonial perspectives on rural ageing in (South) Africa: gendered vulnerabilities and intergenerational ambiguities of older African women -- 20 Posthumanist traditions and their possibilities for rural gerontology -- 21 A Deweyan pragmatist perspective on rural gerontology |
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22 Interrogating the nature and meaning of social exclusion for rural dwelling older people -- 23 Defining the relationship between active citizenship and rural healthy ageing: a critical perspective -- 24 A critical view of older voluntarism in ageing rural communities: prospect, precarity and global pandemics -- 25 Older people and poverty: making critical connections in rural places -- 26 Critical perspectives on mental health, dementia and rural ageing -- 27 Rural gerontechnology: arts-based insights into rural ageing and the use of technology |
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28 Rural older people, climate change and disasters -- Part V Conclusion -- 29 Towards a critical rural gerontology -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Winterton, Rachel
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Walsh, Kieran
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| ISBN |
9781000338461 |
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1000338460 |
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