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$38.95
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#29241
(ISBN 978-1-932529-24-1)
288 pages
6" x 9" papercover
© 2009

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Re-creating
Neighborhoods for Successful Aging
Edited
by Pauline S. Abbott, Ed.D., Nancy Carman, M.A., C.M.C., Jack Carman,
F.A.S.L.A., and Bob Scarfo, Ph.D., M.L.A. |
"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."
-Claire Latané, Landscape Architect, EPT Design, Senior Design
Studio Teacher, Cal Poly Pomona
"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
© 2009-2010 Health Professions Press
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