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$38.95 Stock #29241 (ISBN 978-1-932529-24-1) 288 pages 6" x 9" papercover © 2009
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"This
book promises to be an invaluable resource for anyone working with or
interested in issues surrounding aging, universal design, and health care.
As a teacher, I would recommend the book to students for its history of
long-term care in the United States, its rich resources relating public
health to the built environment, and its compilations of the benefits
of urban nature. As a community member [sic] I would recommend the book
to my city officials for making the connection between public health and
the built environment and for its look at alternatives to planned retirement
communities. As a practicing professional, I found the entire book informative
and valuable for my work with assisted living environments and an aging
population…This book is an important resource in an evolving view
of landscape architects' roles in creating environments." "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."
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