Ageing Resource Communities: New Frontiers of Rural Population Change, Community Development and Voluntarism

ISBN-13: 9780367871871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 220 str.

Mark Skinner; Neil Hanlon

Opis

Throughout the world’s hinterland regions, people are growing old in resource-dependent communities that were neither originally designed nor presently equipped to support an ageing population. This book provides cutting edge theoretical and empirical insights into the new phenomenon resource frontier ageing, to understand the diverse experience

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Introduction to ageing resource communities New frontiers 2. New Frontiers of rural ageing: resource hinterlands  3. Place integration: notes on a Deweyan framework for community inquiry  4. Voluntarism, older people, and ageing places: Pathways of integration and marginalization Rural population ageing Introduction to rural population ageing  5. Rural ageing in farm communities in Ireland: Changing agricultural resources – changing lives  6. Austerity, welfare reform, and older people in rural places: Competing discourses of voluntarism and community?  7. Long-term care service delivery challenges for ageing in place in rural communities: A health region case study of home and residential care  Rural community development Introduction to rural community development  8. Gamvik, "a good place to grow old": The role of voluntary organizations in an ageing resource dependent municipality in northern Norway  9. Experiences of economic change in small town New Zealand: Implications for voluntarism and community capacity  10. Planning for all ages and stages of life in resource hinterlands: Place-based development in northern British-Columbia  Rural voluntary sector Introduction to rural voluntarism 11. Plugging the gaps? Voluntary sector innovation for supporting healthy rural ageing 12. Civic and voluntary contributions of retirement migrants and their impact on rural community sustainability: Perceptions of local governments  13. Voluntarism, community culture, and ageing in place in resource-based communities  Discussion 14. Emerging issues in ageing resource communities  15. Towards new rural ageing futures

O autorze

Mark Skinner is Associate Professor of Geography and Director, Trent Centre for Aging & Society, Trent University, Canada.

Neil Hanlon is Associate Professor and Chair, Geography Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.