The Age-friendly Lens

This book engages with the concept of age-friendly environments, adopting multi-perspectivity to demonstrate how age-friendly environments can contribute to shifting how we think, feel and act toward issues of age and ageing and operate as a vehicle to improve understandings of ageism.
Drawing from traditionally distinct fields, the text demonstrates theoretical and applied dimensions of the age-friendly global agenda, with several chapters discussing topics that have to date been underrepresented in age-friendly scholarship, including education, health and justice systems. The case studies encourage critical engagement with the issue of ageism in age-friendly scholarship. It presents a clear understanding of the inequalities, challenges and opportunities of ageing and of the ways international, regional, national and sub-national commitments in health, development and human rights, and are further impacted by, ageing through designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating policies and programmes. The essays utilise a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue to enhance discussion of the age-friendly environment agenda through the inclusion of age-friendly perspectives in addition to its processes and destinations in an ageing society.
The book serves as a catalyst to stimulate research, policy and public interest in the physical, social and regulatory environments in which we age and the consequent impact upon health and well-being. It will be of interest to professors, graduate students and undergraduate students in policy, sociology, health, planning and gerontology. It is also recommended reading for policy makers, politicians, think tanks and lobbyists, who are concerned with age all-age-inclusiveness.

Christie M. Gardiner, LLM GDLP LLB (Hons), SFHEA, is an Australian lawyer and Associate Lecturer of Law at Australia's leading clinical law school, Newcastle Law School, the University of Newcastle, Australia. Eileen O'Brien Webb is Professor of Law and Ageing in the Law, Justice and Society discipline at the University of South Australia. Her research focuses on the impact of the law on an ageing population, particularly in the areas of housing and accommodation, elder abuse, age discrimination and human rights.

Part One: Age-friendly Systems 1. An Introduction to 'The Age-friendly Lens' 2. The Age-friendly Lens: Past, Present and Future 3. Horizontal and Vertical Mainstreaming of the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Programme: Lessons from Toronto 4. Access to Justice and Legal Assistance in an Age-Friendly World 5. Age-Friendly Health Systems 6. Developing the Age-Friendly University Global Network 7. The Age-friendly Movement in an Asian Context Part Two: Age-friendly Housing and Accommodation 8. Care Homes and Communities: A Human Rights Approach to Age-friendliness 9. The Participation of Older People in Concepting and Designing New Housing Facilities in the Netherlands 10. 'Grandly Designing' Cohousing for Older People in Australia: Overcoming the Challenges 11. An Age-friendly Lens on the Renewal of Housing Resources in Poland 12. Certification as a Tool to Deliver Age-friendly Homes at Scale 13. International Standardisation of Products and Services for Ageing Societies: Promoting the Global Application of an Age-friendly Lens