Rural Gerontology - Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing (Hardcover)

This book provides the first foundation of knowledge about the intellectual traditions, contemporary scope and future prospects for the interdisciplinary field of rural gerontology. With a focus on rural regions, small towns and villages, which have the highest rates of population ageing worldwide, Rural Gerontology is aimed at understanding what it means for rural people, communities and institutions to be at the forefront of twenty-first-century demographic change. The book offers important insights from rural ageing studies into today's most pressing gerontological problems. With chapters from more than 65 established and emerging rural ageing researchers, it is the first synthesis of knowledge about rural gerontology, harnessing a burgeoning interdisciplinary scholarship on the rural dimensions of ageing, old age and older populations. With a view to advancing a critical understanding of rural ageing populations, this book will have an overreaching impact across the social sciences by drawing on advancements in understandings of rural ageing from social, environmental, geographical and critical gerontology to facilitate a comprehensive exploration of the diversity, complexity and implications of the ageing process in rural settings. Bringing together valuable international perspectives, this book makes a timely contribution to gerontology, rural studies and the social sciences, and will appeal to scholars and researchers across USA and Canada, UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, China and countries in Africa, South America and South-East Asia.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2021
Editors:	Mark Skinner • Rachel Winterton • Kieran Walsh
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	366
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-89479-5
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Rural planning Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Nursing > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Nursing
LSN:	0-367-89479-3
Barcode:	9780367894795

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