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Countryside Connections - Older People, Community and Place in Rural Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Countryside Connections - Older People, Community and Place in Rural Britain (Hardcover, New)
Series: The New Dynamics of Ageing
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Older people in the countryside are vastly under-researched
compared to those in urban areas. This innovative volume, the first
project-based book in the New Dynamics of Ageing series, offers a
unique interdisciplinary perspective on this issue, focusing on
older people's role as assets in rural civic society. It
demonstrates how the use of diverse methods from across disciplines
aims to increase public engagement with this research. The authors
examine the ways in which rural elders are connected to community
and place, the contributions they make to family and neighbours,
and the organisations and groups to which they belong. Highly
topical issues around later life explored through these
perspectives include older people's financial security, leisure,
access to services, transport and mobility, civic engagement and
digital inclusion - all considered within the rural context in an
era of fiscal austerity. In doing so, this book challenges
problem-based views of ageing rural populations through considering
barriers and facilitators to older people's inclusion and
opportunities for community participation in rural settings.
Countryside Connections is a valuable text for students,
researchers and practitioners with interests in rural ageing, civic
engagement and interdisciplinary methods, theory and practice.
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