"When Powell Lawton theorized about the fit between persons and their environments in old age, a new interdisciplinary collaboration arose between psychologists, ecologists, architects, planners, and others whose uniting interest was environmental design. This book follows in that tradition. But now there is a new urgency. The baby boom is retiring and will increasingly press for new and creative approaches to this issue. Re-creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging is an eagerly awaited volume that speaks to the person environment fit in old age, and does so brilliantly."
–Charles F. Longino, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director of the Reynolda Gerontology Program, Wake Forest University

"As Americans live longer and longer, what lifestyle options exist beyond nursing homes and other institutional care facilities? This informative book provides some answers:  walkable neighborhoods with connections to goods, services, and personal relationships, and refreshing green space among them. Planners, architects and landscape architects, and health care professionals will all benefit from this book."
–J. William Thompson, FASLA, Editor, Landscape Architecture