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Title:

Re-creating neighborhoods for successful aging / edited by Pauline S. Abbott ... [et al.] ; forewords by Robert N. Butler, Robert H. McNulty.

Publisher:

Health Professions Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xxi, 262 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Aging--Social aspects--United States.
Older people--Housing--United States.
Neighborhood planning--United States.
Housing for the Elderly.
Aged.
Community Health Planning.
Environment Design.

Other Authors:

Abbott, Pauline S.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A history of long-term care in the United States / Nancy Carman -- Public health and the built environment / Pauline Abbott -- Geographic information systems : health and aging as a spatial construct / Kerry R. Brooks and Bob Scarfo -- Nature-related contact for healthy communities : from hunter-gatherer to horticultural therapy / Angela C. Pappas -- The evolution of continuing care retirement communities : not your grandmother's retirement community / Frank R. Mandy -- Naturally occurring retirement communities : thriving through creative retrofitting / P. Annie Kirk -- Cohousing and shared housing / Laura Bauer Granberry -- Outdoor environments supportive of independence and aging well / Jack Carman and Edward Fox -- Technology and aging : adapting homes and shopping environments with assistive technologies / Emi Kiyota -- Collaboration as the key to the successful future of aging / Bob Scarfo.

ISBN:

1932529241 (pbk.)
9781932529241 (pbk.)

LCCN:

2008039262

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)