FRHD 3060 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Capital, Proactivity, Special Police
2 Nov 2016
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Environmental gerontology: the study of behavioral, social and psychological implications of encounters between older adults and their environment. Creates interventions to better fit the environment to older adults: looks at fixing poor sidewalks, user-unfriendly bus systems. Aging actively includes living in security, enjoying good health and. Goal of public policy should be to create (cid:498)age friendly(cid:499) communities. One may be a part of many communities. Community provides and anchoring point and is a source of accumulated disadvantage or advantage. Quality of life can be a determining factor in whether or not and elderly individual will age in place. Communities can be age integrated or age segregated. 19% of older canadians live in rural communities, 3% live on farms: highest in the northwest territories and lowest in ontario. Some rural communities have aged because the young people have left to seek work.
