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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Share Long-Term Care in an Aging Society: Theory and Practice -- Part I: The Context of Long-Term Care -- Chapter 1: The Long-Term Care Continuum in an Aging Society -- Chapter Overview -- Learning Objectives -- Key Terms -- Introduction -- The Demographic Context of Contemporary Long-Term Care -- Long-Term Care Populations -- Informal Care: Families, Friends, and Acquaintances -- Formal Care: The Rise of Service Systems, the Aging Network, and Corporate Care -- Relocation and the Emergence of Residential Alternatives -- Revisiting the Long-Term Care Continuum -- The Social Context of Contemporary Long-Term Care -- Widening Horizons -- Challenges of Long-Term Care -- Discussion Questions -- References -- Chapter 2: History of Long-Term Care -- Chapter Overview -- Learning Objectives -- Key Terms -- Introduction -- Colonial and Early 19th-Century Practices -- Religious Reform and Long-Term Care -- Old-Age Homes -- The Myth of Almshouse Residency -- The Attack on the Almshouse -- Pensions, Social Security, and Long-Term Care -- Expansion of the Nursing Home Industry -- Discussion Questions -- Additional Resources -- References -- Part II: Community-Based Long-Term Care -- Chapter 3: The Role of Family in Community-Based Long-Term Care -- Chapter Overview -- Learning Objectives -- Key Terms -- Introduction -- The Experience of Giving and Receiving Care -- Impact of Caregiving -- Interventions for Family Caregivers -- Public Policies Pertaining to Family Caregivers -- Summary -- Food for Thought -- Discussion Questions -- Additional Resources -- References -- Chapter 4: Family Involvement in Residential Long-Term Care -- Chapter Overview -- Learning Objectives -- Key Terms -- Introduction -- The Caregiving Career and Residential Care Placement.

The environments in which people live out their later lives have a strong impact on their identity and provide opportunities for nourishing social interactions. This volume translates the insights derived from contemporary research on residential environments and public spaces that enhance well-being into practical recommendations for the design of such beneficial community environments. The text is grounded in the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of current research on place attachment, environmental meaning, and community living in later life. Emphasis is placed on how to design residential spaces that facilitate the development of a sense of place or home, and investigation is made into the kinds of lifestyles such spaces foster and support. A major theme pervading the text is the juxtaposition of private and public space. The book also addresses such themes as the transformation of spaces into places of personal identification and attachment, the need for shared intergenerational spaces, and consideration of diverse populations when designing public spaces. The book also considers how emerging public policy agendas affect the development and management of environments for the elderly. Environmental Gerontology includes the contributions of scholars in anthropology, architecture, economics, education, geography, gerontology, planning, psychology, sociology, and numerous health sciences, who hail from North America, Europe, and Asia. With its strong interdisciplinary focus, this text offers innovative and judicious recommendations for the creation of community environments that are truly beneficial for older adults. Key Features:.: Provides an up-to-date synthesis of the latest research on the meaning of place to older people and its relationship to well-being; Offers fresh insight and critical perspectives on community planning and

"Presenting insightful essays and findings from empirical studies, leading contemporary scholars examine the meaning of home to elders and the ways in which this meaning may be sustained, threatened, or modified in association with both normal and pathological changes with growing old. For example, health and well being can be affected by an environmental change, such as a change in an established neighborhood or a forced relocation. Section topics explored include: The Essence of Home; Disruptions of Home: Creating and Recreating Home; and Community Perspective on the Meaning of Home. The volume concludes with a series of critical commentaries that add unique perspectives on the topic"-Provided by the Publisher

"Moving away from studies of aging in place, this forward-looking Handbook focuses on aging and place, offering a broader scope and more nuanced, complex and enlightening understanding of these two intertwined universals of human experience. Innovative and thought-provoking, the Handbook brings together an international range of top scholars from gerontology and geography to provide state-of-the-art assessments of the topic. Not only examining the latest literature, the chapters also challenge current thinking on the many intersections, opportunities and issues around place and aging that need to be addressed through policy and practice. The Handbook is split into four key sections: looking at different perspectives, core places of aging, making and re-making places for aging, and envisioning a future for the study of aging and place. This Handbook invites students, scholars, practitioners and policy makers to consider a fresh examination of aging and place, offering theoretical, empirical and policy-relevant content. It will be of particular interest to those studying and working within gerontology, human geography, sociology, urban planning and environmental psychology"--

Aging and Milieu: Environmental Perspectives on Growing Old is a collection of essays that presents insight into the area of aging-environment research. The book focuses primarily on the physical, phenomenological, cultural, social, and clinical environmental context of an old person. Part I explores alternative conceptions of aging and milieu. The second part discusses the old-person-environment transaction. Part III covers the social context of milieu or the notion of how social relationships mediate and condition the symbiotic relationships between the old person and the physical environmen

ABSTRACT This paper develops a conceptual model of the process of community change in response to elderly immigration. Analysis of intra‐regional variation in elderly migration patterns in Appalachia, and synthesis of an emergent literature on the benefits and costs of attracting elderly migrants, serve as a backdrop for case studies, based on field observations and interviews, of three contrasting Appalachian communities at different stages of development as retirement destinations. The analyses suggest a temporal model of community development involving overlapping phases of emergence, recognition, restructuring, saturation, and the development of new concerns, as the process of demographic change evolves and its economic, environmental, infrastructural, social, and political correlates become manifest. It is concluded that communities considering attraction of elderly migrants as a development option should carefully consider both the diverse characteristics and needs of potential migrants and the long‐term implications and desirability of the community transformation that results from adopting such a strategy.