Global Age-Friendly Community Movement

Philip B. Stafford is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University in Bloomington, and was Director of the Indiana University Center on Aging and Community until 2017. His research, primarily ethnographic and participatory, has focused on aging and sense of place. He has received the Blackburn award from the Indiana chapter of the AIA for contributions to architecture by a non-architect and is a member of the board of the American Society on Aging.

“Knowledgeably compiled and deftly edited by Philip B. Stafford [this volume] is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended as a core addition to community, college, and university library Gerontology Social Sciences and in Public Policy collections, as well as Social Services & Welfare supplemental curriculum studies lists.” • Midwest Book Review“[this volume] provides an excellent critical appraisal of the challenges, successes, theoretical models and their practical applicability in the building of age-friendly communities. Importantly, this volume suggests that the Age-Friendly Movement must consider the needs of populations at large, or risks further segmentation and isolation of various age-groups…The authors invite us to move away from the individual and the local as the smallest unit of health, to take into account the complex social conditions affecting a globalized world.” • Anthropology & Aging“In short, the strength of this book is that it reinforces and extends the current discussion of key, age-friendly issues, and brings attention to a new array of communities and their distinctive efforts. This book would be of interest to students, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and community leaders who want to broaden their view of developments in the movement to develop age-friendly communities. The loud message gained from this book is that assessing the needs of aging populations and designing age-friendly community responses require vastly different approaches and tools, depending on the community. At the same time, the book makes clear that such efforts are possible and that much can be learned from the experiences of these communities.” • The Gerontologist“An important contribution to the literature… [it] attempts to broaden the theories of gerontology to consider the role of community and overcome the limitations of a purely medical model of aging.” • Laura M. Keyes, University of North Texas

• List of Illustrations and FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Theorizing and Practicing Age-friendly DevelopmentPhilip B. StaffordPART I: EQUITY AND SUSTAINABILITYChapter 1. Creating Age-friendly Communities in Urban Environments: Research Issues and Policy RecommendationsTine Buffel and Chris PhillipsonChapter 2. Training Advocates to Undertake Livable Community Initiatives: A Pilot ProgramSharon A. BaggettChapter 3. Public Places, Community, and the Physical and Mental Health of Children and EldersSuzanne H. Crowhurst LennardChapter 4. The Intersection between Sustainable and Age-friendly DevelopmentAlan DeLaTorrePART II: AGE-FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOODSChapter 5. Accessibility, Participation, Networking: The Impact of a Local Network on the Environment and the Life Relationship of Older PeopleBirgit WolterChapter 6. Assessing the Aging-Friendliness of Two New York City Neighborhoods: A Case StudyMia R. Oberlink and Barbara S. DavisPART III: COLLABORATION ACROSS GENERATIONSChapter 7. Communities for All Ages:  Reinforcing and Reimagining the Social CompactCorita Brown and Nancy HenkinChapter 8. Ibasho Café: Giving Elders a Role to Play in Making Communities More ResilientEmi KiyotaChapter 9. Youth and Older Persons as Agents for Change: Creating an Inclusive and Age-Friendly Society for AllArthur Namara and Kristin BodifordPART IV: RURAL AGINGChapter 10. Retrofitting Small Towns: How Aging in Place Could Transform Rural AmericaZachary BenedictChapter 11. Creating an Age-Friendly Community in a Depopulated Town in Japan: A Search for Resilient Ways to Cherish New Commons as Local Cultural ResourcesNanami SuzukiPART V: BEING WELL ENOUGH IN OLD AGEChapter 12. Relational Well-Being and Age-Friendly CitiesMarian BarnesIndex